Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conversation -an easy transition, since he has usually been eavesdropping outside. There is absolutely no small talk or incidental detail in Dame Ivy's novels. There are, however, plenty of conversational bromides: the author delighted in characterizing her villains by making them overly fond of banal phrases. "The yoke is not always easy, or the burden light," sighs Eliza...
Reflecting an upsurge of interest by Americans in the new China, other invitations poured into Peking. The New England Amateur Athletic Association invited China to send athletes to the Hoi-yoke, Mass., Marathon on June 6. Chinese competitors were asked to join in everything from the U.S. Open tennis championships to the Miss Universe contest. United Air Lines, somewhat precipitously, applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to fly to Canton, Shanghai and Peking...
Trapped in the Western cultural pattern, and inevitably racist, few Americans are ever able to develop the respect for the Lao-or Asian, for that matter-character and culture which is necessary for cooperation. The American yoke will never fit Laos as comfortably as the Chinese or Vietnamese...
...Future. She saw Tojo for the last time in a Tokyo prison on Dec. 18, 1948, only four days before his execution for war crimes. As they spoke together, he dismissed the handcuffs on his wrists. "These things are of no importance because nothing can put a yoke on my mind, and my mind remains as free as ever," he told her. He kept repeating, she recalls, that Japan was a great nation and that everything would work all right for the country...
...three hundreds talked about dropping out of school or quitting their deferrable jobs. The draft board's sphere of influence had been radically reduced as some men faced absolute freedom. All of a sudden it was possible that thousands of young men would no longer be under their yoke, responsive to their whims, chained to their relativistic sense of justice and fairness. My board hates me, and you, all of us. They say they are just doing their job. Some job!! All of a sudden, their control was slipping...