The term "yard ape" refers to a black person. It's derivation is from the lawn ornaments of black coachmen holding lanterns, or black children fishing, or many of the other lawn ornaments of that type. It has devolved into a perjorative term for blacks.
> "Those yard apes drank all of my 40s"

By Nico Colombant Bukavu, Congo 29 September 2006 watch Congo Rape Victims Even though the war is officially over in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rapes are still rampant in unstable parts of the mostly lawless country. The perpetrators are usua

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By Erika Celeste Highway 11, Mississippi 06 June 2008 For the past 11 years, there's been a yard sale in the United States like no other. For one weekend each spring, it runs for 808 kilometers 807.71800 to be exact starting in the southern state of

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Business leaders in Cape Verde are responding to their country's ascension to the World Trade Organization. While business leaders agree the measure should enhance the competitiveness of the island nation, Brent Latham reports from our West Africa b

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been two weeks since the Oscars, time enough for the film industry to reset from prestige mode to blockbuster. This week, Hollywood's favorite giant ape returns to the screen in Kong: Skull Island, a film that left critic Bo

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 12 June 2007 The West African island nation of Cape Verde is working to change its rank as a U.N. designated lesser-developed country, but government officials say they need more help from donors. From VOA's West Africa bureau in

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By Meredith Buel Islamabad 08 February 2008 British investigators from Scotland Yard have concluded that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed as the result of a suicide bomb blast and not an assassin's bullet. The results of the

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By Phuong Tran Praia, Cape Verde 15 April 2007 When people talk about Cape Verdean music, it is inevitable they mention Cesaria Evora, the singer who introduced many to the country's melancholic music known as morna . Some have said that singer Tete

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A wolf accused a fox of theft,but the latter entirely denied the charge.An ape undertook to judge the matter between them.When each had fully stated his case,the ape pronounced this sentence;I do not think you,wolf,ever lost what you cl

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学英语单词
-gony
a handful of
ahead sea
altheas
amido-sulfonic acid
anastatica hierochuntica l.
anti - trust laws
auxiliary diesel engine
banjuwangi (banyuwangi )
bank moratorium
betting-shop
bubble delay device
bulgaris
Busu-Modanda
calciotalc
capillary module
cell division
Complex cash flow
compromise formation
corne-
counteropening
data base generation (dbgen)
Depardieu
diagonally dominant
diamond knurls
Differential Signaling
doelike
ecko
edge wavelength of edge filter
Elva, Slieve
enemylike
erosion of tax base
estimated date
feed-breed
field-effect tube
flag smuts
fugade
gaetanoes
gelatinous tumor
genus parrotias
Gonadryl
greasest
greywalls
grovier
hit the target
host and guest
hydrometer set
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA-Reductase
index stock
inter marker group sender
internal deposition
isolated follicular stimulating hormone deficiency
kern stone
knife smooth file
Kumbh Mela
left-aligned text
media distribution
Motor City
multi-organ
mysterianism
niggardous
objective function element
oil and gas severance tax
outlots
outward inclination
owner's risk clause
PAHR (post accident heat removal)
panicker
paracymoriza multispinea
Ponindilisa, Tg.
program control data attribute
raft contact pressure
rapid contractor
rescreens
resipiscent
resist soiling
restriction area
Sagra, Cayo la
scalar curl
scanner board
Schizopathidae
senior staff
serophyte
shaking conveyor screw jack
Shewhart control model
shooting-jacket
siffener angle
sterling
subaddress
Suomenlahti(Finland, Gulf of)
superresolutions
sweet scented oleander
termination power
tischendorfite
unerect
unfood
unimpression
unstructured information
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
werrsenn
wiredrawn
Zarumilla