Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparently once Cambridge, Mass. She notes the costume she must wear, a Handmaid's uniform, when she is allowed to go out shopping: "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head...
Only a few break free from the binding yoke of political pollstering. Dana Gallup of Cambridge, who has lived just a few blocks from Harvard for the past 50 years, said, "Of course I knew The Game was this week...
...more comprehensive account of an appropriate, positive response by this University to the vexing problems of South Africa. The paragraphs that follow set forth actions that Harvard can carry out, as well as steps that individuals can take, to oppose apartheid and assist those who suffer under its yoke...
...human rights issue of the eighties, largely because the issues at stake are so similar to those in America 20 years ago. The problems of minorities in the United States, though significant, no longer lie purely in the legal realm. The plight of Blacks suffering under the Afrikaaner yoke has emerged as an important cause for American liberals because the issue--unlike most in America--is literally black and white...
Unlike the telecommunications business, the nuclear power industry strained under a yoke of regulation. Ever since the 1979 nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, stepped-up safety precautions have made the building of atomic power facilities an increasingly complex and expensive job. Utility companies stopped work on eight nuclear construction projects in 1984. Nuclear woes generated financial difficulties for several utilities, including Long Island Lighting and Consumers Power of Michigan...