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That happened on a Memorial Day, too, in 1952, on a nothing Korean hill called Yoke, where U.S. Marines fought the Chinese and got our asses whipped.
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Between Threalkild & Jimmy Peters, Tim Dargon has promis '[d] me to Break a Yoke of Oxen for himself
Letter from Robert Carter to Robert Jones, October 22, 1729 1729
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'Yoke' is a possible translation, but it has the weakness that it denotes the shape of the device but not its purpose, whereas the pati - element in patibulum draws attention to its purpose.
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VT, or Victoria Terminus, is now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, renamed like so many things in Mumbai, for a seventeenth century Marathi warrior king and scourge of the Mughals (in the same way that Balkan anti-Muslim sentiment often refers back to the ‘Turkish Yoke’, Hindutva uses the Mughal Empire as the past oppressor of a rightfully Hindu India).
Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons « Squares of Wheat 2009
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That isn't negotiation, that is bullying, said Yoke-Ling Chee, director of the Third World Network, a development NGO.
Pathogen row blocking biodiversity deal Jonathan Watts in Nagoya 2010
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I use the OX Yoke Lubricated Felt Wonder Wads (2) with one shot card in both my guns.
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I use the OX Yoke Lubricated Felt Wonder Wads (2) with one shot card in both my guns.
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Polish and Swedish literature Under två kulturers ok (Under the Yoke of Two Cultures, 2001).
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There is a decent amount of explanatory biographical material by co-editor Kovacs, Carl Yoke and a preface by Robert Silverberg.
Linkspam for 24-8-2009 nwhyte 2009
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VT, or Victoria Terminus, is now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, renamed like so many things in Mumbai, for a seventeenth century Marathi warrior king and scourge of the Mughals (in the same way that Balkan anti-Muslim sentiment often refers back to the ‘Turkish Yoke’, Hindutva uses the Mughal Empire as the past oppressor of a rightfully Hindu India).
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