Word: yokes
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...With two yoke of oxen, a big yaller dawg...
Other Moslems who interested the Nazis were the wild, proud Afghan tribesmen on the western borders of India. Poetic handbills printed in the Pushtu, Urdu, and Brahui languages urged the tribesmen to a jihad (holy war) "to strike off the Anglo-Saxon yoke," promised them heaping banquets and succulent maidens in the soft lands of India. Berlin proclaimed the "independence of India" from the Hotel Kaiserhop, relayed applause for the proclamation from "204 Hindu nationalists...
...told the purpose of the eight points: "to give hope and the assurance of final victory to those many scores of millions of men and women who are battling for life and freedom or who are already bent down under the Nazi yoke...
...cheering thing about the North Carolina exercises: Army and Navy, having at last bent their stiff necks, were working together in the same training yoke...
Because Mr. Roosevelt believes naval power on salt water and electrical power from fresh water will determine the future of the U.S., the power phase of the project now ranks with the navigation phase. To yoke the river's great flow (220,000 cubic feet per second) two huge dams would be thrown up in the International Rapids southwest of Montreal (see cut). Here two titanic stations would harness 820,000 kilowatts of electricity (Grand Coulee: 1,944,000 kilowatts), half for the U.S., half for Canada. Estimated cost of power development only...