Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eighth grade. He was a street-corner tough who now claims as his models Emiliano Zapata, Gandhi, Nehru and Martin Luther King. He tells his people: "We make a solemn promise: to enjoy our rightful part of the riches of this land, to throw off the yoke of being considered as agricultural implements or slaves. We are free men and we demand justice...
...Brazilian students are doing something constructive. Two years ago, astute government officials decided to yoke the students' energies to the country's biggest problem-developing its vast interior. Three-quarters of Brazil's 85 million people live within 100 miles of the coast; the rest are scattered in pockets of poverty across thousands of miles of inaccessible jungle and remote highlands. The government's solution was Projeto Rondón (named after Brazilian Explorer Candido Mariano da Silva Rondón), which takes student volunteers into Amazonia and the northeast territory for month-long "vacations...
...that few Americans can view their land today without wondering whether it is not somehow going to hell and heaven at the same time. The world's richest, strongest nation has never deserved its superlatives more. Yet rarely has it felt so wracked and confused, so unable to yoke its power to its problems. For the President who may well preside over America on its 200th birthday in 1976, the challenge is to revive its morale and purpose...
Nothing against the mini-mod set, but.for her wedding Julie Nixon chose an old-fashioned gown with schoolgirl sleeves, high collar and pearl-embroidered yoke...
...Guards have sacked virtually all of the Peking-trained Tibetan civil servants for "regional nationalism." Says the Dalai Lama: "There is so much chaos now that it is definite that a change must come about. The Tibetan people may yet get an opportunity to throw off the yoke of oppression." That was probably wishful thinking, especially if the Maoists have indeed succeeded in bringing their own factions to a truce in ravished Tibet...