Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What accelerated the settlement was U.A.W. President Walter Reuther's vow, in the event that last week's talks faltered, to set the same strike deadline for both national and local contracts. Rather than attempt the sticky business of negotiating those pacts simultaneously, G.M.'s new president, Edward N. Cole, pressed his men to stay at the bargaining table until they could get the national contract...
...hardly the image of a bishop, let alone the archbishop of the vast Archdiocese of New York. "I shall pray as if everything depended upon God," he said when he assumed his office. "I shall work as if everything depended on me." And so seriously did he take his vow - so firmly did he place his mark on American Catholicism - that when he died of a stroke in Manhattan last week, Francis Cardinal Spellman, 78, was without question the most influential cleric...
...Vow Remembered. The results can be seen in the reconstructed Old Town district and along Krakowskie Przed-miescie, a popular promenade. Nowhere perhaps is the correspondence between art and life more striking than in the New Town Market Square (see color opposite). There stands the lovely baroque Church of the Nuns of the Holy Sacrament, completed in 1687 in fulfillment of a vow made by Queen Maria Kazimiera as her husband, King John Sobieski, rode into battle against the Turks (he won). In August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were...
...Commerce-showed that Wilson is determined to pursue British membership in the Common Market, which Jay bitterly opposed. And by keeping James Callaghan as Chancellor of the Exchequer against the expectations of many political analysts, Wilson again signaled the West's financial community that he stands by his vow not to devalue the pound...
...undertake a vow to skin some people, make paper out of their skins, take their blood and use it as ink, use their bones as our pens and make their flesh our rations...