Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Citing the voting records of Southern senators, Sen. Neuberger declared that "the biggest change in Congress will come when the South gets a two-party system." Until then, the Democrats will have a "Southern yoke" around their necks...
Minor Nuisance. Many of them were kids, 19 or 20 years old, often newly married, with a couple of yoke of oxen and no fear at all. On a good day they could make 14 miles, and after two months of walking or jolting along, they still had 1,500 to go. When a baby was born, the wagon train would stop for a few hours. They were not the sort of people to die on the trail, and amazingly few did. In fact, the skeletons that are strewn all over the emigrants' path in Stewart's book...
...lover Ike, With two yoke of cattle, a large yellow...
Sadoveanu's curiously dated writing style is most evident in Tales of War. Amidst a "hail of lead" and the "yelp" of guns, an army of "brave lads" heroically helps Rumania throw off the Turkish yoke. The time is 1877. All the soldiers talk like British guards officers. Yet Sadoveanu sometimes had the writing skill to make compelling even quite traditional reactions to old-fashioned war: soldiers' delight in a battlefront feast on stolen turkey; a young sergeant's awe at the presence of a beautiful woman in the convalescent hospital; the guilty confusion of victorious troopers...
...clear as he could make it-he was still in charge. Last month, in a marathon 3½hour speech to his countrymen, he accused the old party regulars of undercutting his revolution, of shunting aside his followers in favor of its own cadres, of lowering a yoke on Cuba. Cried Castro: "The only comrade who could be trusted, the only one who could be appointed to an important post on a people's farm, a cooperative, in the state administration, any place, had to be an old Marxist militant. They thought that they had won the revolution...