Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were among the most densely forested. This month a hairdresser was secretly called in to shear them. John kept his beard but emerged looking like an earnest young seminary student. Yoke's locks were cropped in the old Mia Farrow style. Their motive was to avoid being recognized in crowds, but American parents may hope, probably in vain, that the event will set a new tonsorial style...
...committee like a fief. He often gets away with oversimplifications and half-truths because so few Americans, in or out of Congress, fathom the intricacies of finance. Many bankers contend that Patman thoroughly misunderstands how the U.S. banking system operates. They argue that some of his proposed reforms would yoke the Federal Reserve to policies of permanent inflation by depriving the board of its ability to take unpopular actions. Still, Economists John Kenneth Galbraith, Seymour Harris and several others support Patman's idea of placing the Reserve Board under presidential control...