Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that massive Buddhist disaffection could wreck South Viet Nam's long, vital campaign against the Communists, the Diem government signed a compromise agreeing to let the Buddhists fly their own flag and promising to ease anti-Buddhist discrimination. If the regime fails to show good faith, the Buddhists vow, they will start new demonstrations-and they are counting on the symbol of Quang Due's durable heart to help keep the faithful inspired...
...begins with the notorious Economics S-1, "Principles of Economics." The largest course in the University during the regular school year, "ec 1" is a dull but "valuable" introduction. It is the course most students, in their more dutiful moments, vow they "must take" and few regret it. You too can be attacked by your local American Legion...
...Shuck." Behind all this manifest preparation stands a determined and dynamic president, Frank Anthony Rose, 42, who recently reaffirmed his vow that "the university will maintain its dignity, its scholastic integrity, and our students and faculty will walk as honorable men and women...
...letter to the Moslem wise men of Egypt's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, a distraught Iraqi electrician wrote: "I vowed to sacrifice my son for Arab unity. Now that it has been achieved, should I carry out my vow and kill my boy?" An Al Azhar scholar replied that he was moved by the writer's faith, but warned that Moslem law forbids human sacrifices. Therefore, "your vow carries no obligation and should not be executed...
Bidault did not leave Munich without a vow to "continue my fight against De Gaulle until freedom has been restored in my country.'' Landing in Portugal under an assumed name, he was given even less chance to plot against De Gaulle's life than he enjoyed in easygoing Bavaria; almost as soon as he turned up at a Lisbon rooming house, security cops hauled him off to a suburban Lisbon villa. He was expected to seek refuge in South America...