Word: yokes
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...exhibit of Japanese Buddhist art which covers three major periods in the development of the art of that country. The paintings and statues are particularly interesting because it was during the Fujiwara and Kamakura periods, both of which are represented in the exhibit, that Japan gradually threw off the yoke of Chinese influence in the arts, and began to establish an indigenous culture...
...Harper's Bazaar: "It's not a lower waistline, or a higher waistline. It starts exactly at its natural, rightful indentation and extends both up and down, to give you a firm lithe line like the stalk of a flower. Sometimes the effect is achieved by a yoke over the hips, or the placing of pockets. . . . The new suits accomplish it by longer jackets...
Spectator Man sighed with comparative relief, settled back into his yoke, put his hands in the pockets of his new four-button coat, and waited for spring...
...Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung declared: "Neutrals have gone all too willingly to The Downs and have submitted to the Caudinian yoke of the British blockade. Alleged resistance to illegal British blockade practices has been confined to paper protests and resolutions discreetly submitted behind closed doors...
Wells. Biggest push was made by inexhaustible little Novelist Herbert George Wells. In a letter to the London Times he called for a statement of Britain's war aims so written as "to appeal very forcibly to every responsive spirit under the yoke of obscurantist and totalitarian tyrannies...