Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When we were about twelve, Johnny and I belonged to a group called the Ohio Rangers," recalls the Rev. C. Edwin Houk, now a Presbyterian pastor in Glendale, Calif. "We had taken a vow never to use profanity. One evening the group started singing Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here. I continued with the phrase, 'What the hell do we care.' Well, I can tell you, it didn't sit well with Johnny. He came up to me, white-faced and righteous, and told me to stop. I think he was ready to knock my block...
...Guinea's natives, who slaughtered thousands of Japanese during World War II, vow that they will repel any Indonesian invasion. Says a top Papuan politician, Councilman Nicolaas Jouwe: "Indonesia keeps talking of Dutch colonialism, but at the same time they deny us our right of independence, our own future, our character and our flag...
...should not have emphasized Bashir's first pair of shoes or his vow on the Koran. You would do the same before flying to Venus, if you held the Bible sacred...
...finding the New Frontier a happy hunting ground (see cuts). The Hearst papers praised Kennedy's "firmness and determination" in his talks with Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko. In a series by its military writer, Dan Partner, the Denver Post felt that "positive leadership by the U.S.-especially its vow to fire atomic weapons if necessary to defend West Berlin-is slowly solidifying the North Atlantic Treaty Organization into a deterrent force demanding recognition by the Soviets." After auditing Kennedy's Sept. 25 speech before the United Nations, the Chicago Daily News editorialized: "The rule of law . . . found...
...rejecting with equal finality a neutralist proposal by Left-Winger Frank Cousins, whose venomous attack on party leaders was silenced by a barrage of slow handclaps. Despite passage of an inconsistent but relatively unimportant resolution opposing U.S. missile bases in Britain, Gaitskell had dramatically vindicated his 1960 vow in the midst of defeat: "We will fight, and fight, and fight again...