Word: yokes
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...Peru issued its Declaration of Independence on July 28, 1821, but did not succeed in shaking off the Spanish yoke until...
...common defeat, has magnified this hate a hundred times, hatred of the small against the great, the discontented against the restless, the servants against their masters, the ambitious classes against the declining classes, the hegemonic races against the vassal races, the ruling peoples against the peoples under their yoke. The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles...
...court. Justice Wagner refused to enlighten reporters as to his reasons. Whatever the outcome of the case, one thing is sure-it is being proved that a man, no matter how rich, no matter how influential, no matter how generously endowed with astute counsel, must bow to the yoke of the Law. Over the portals of the court house where the case is being tried, appears: "To no man will we sell, delay or deny justice...
...including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging the full-bellied sailboat through the surf. Sorolla is also represented in the Luxembourg, the Berlin National Gallery, the Venice, Madrid and Buenos Aires Museums, the Chicago Art Institute, and in many private collections of the United States and Europe. But his crowning work...
...There is a very good touch at the beginning when the great, long column of clumsy schooners is waiting for the command to be off. The leader of the expedition hands his boy a great bull-whip and as the youngster cracks it over the backs of the first yoke of oxen his father tells him to remember that he started the first expedition to Oregon back in '48. The scene at the crossing of the Platte River is beautifully done, and gives more of a thrill than any of the other big moments, and there were many...