Word: vow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced the shivering, delighted village girls to dance at his command. He never harmed women, even if they were patels. But in two years, in 30 villages, he cut off 250 patel noses with his sharp kukri. Before and after each raid he visited his temple and renewed his vow...
...band dashed into the village, they were caught in ambush, and Visa and three henchmen were killed. In triumph the police laid out the bodies before the unhappy villagers, and took them to the bank of the Hiran River. Next day, near the temple where Visa had made his vow, he and his bandits were burned to ashes...
...eleven years, world-famed Catalan Cellist Casals has lived his life of simple but defiant exile in Prades. When he came to Prades, it was with a vow that he would never play again in his native Spain so long as Dictator Francisco Franco was in power. Then, soon after World War II, he decided not to play any more in public...