Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blast by U.S. Republicans on the eve of Johnson's departure, accusing him of having backed down in the U.S. fight to force Russia and other delinquent nations to ante up their assessments for U.N. peace-keeping operations. Everett Dirksen charged that the Administration's earlier vow had been "exposed as a bluff"; the backdown, he said, was a "staggering blow to the structure of the United Nations...
...PARIS BURNING? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The exciting story of the 1944 rescue of Paris from Hitler's vow to dynamite it and from the Communist plot to seize...
...seven or twelve years rather than life; 2) shortening the normal 15-year training period before ordination; and 3) providing more authority for the provincials (area chiefs) and more democracy within their provinces. Also to be considered are elimination of the elite Jesuit "professed," who take a fourth vow of personal loyalty to the Pope in addition to the standard vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and revamping of the Jesuit notion of obedience in light of modern Catholic thinking about individual conscience...
Quitting the Seminaries. In religious orders, there is considerable discussion by priests and nuns about the need to modernize the vow of obedience to allow more individual initiative. Bishops are also worried about the defection from seminaries of candidates for the priesthood who feel that they can do more for the church in secular jobs...
...last, loneliest battle, that defiant vow seemed graven on Sir Winston Churchill's soul. Hour after hour, day after day, the world stood vigil as the medical bulletins became ever more grave. But Churchill fought on with almost unbelievable tenacity. Finally, after days of drifting in and out of consciousness, the old warrior sank into peaceful sleep. The battle was over, the lion heart stilled forever...