Word: vow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nicholson's self-indulgences these days are pretty much under control. While on the set in Canada, he says, "we all took a vow to stay off pot. I'm the only one who's stuck to it. I'd been smoking it every day for 15 years and I'd been wondering if it was habit-forming. Well, it's not." Nowadays, the only habit he has to worry about is success...
Commitment to socially desirable objectives: A vow taken by company officials after losing a series of consumer suits or paying fines for polluting, or both...
...overriding issue separating Arab leaders is how much support to give the Palestinian guerrilla movement. Because of their vow to destroy Israel as a state, the fedayeen have won immense popularity among the masses throughout the Arab world. Almost all Arab governments provide limited support to the guerrillas, and the more radical ones unreservedly endorse their cause. But established leaders are leary of the fedayeen's fanaticism and appalled by some of their tactics, especially airliner shootups and hijackings. Most of all, they see the proselytizing guerrillas as threats to their own regimes, and have hardly been reassured...
...ritual profession of virginity was issued in 1596. Thus the pronouncement from Rome last week was received by most Catholics with some surprise and bewilderment: the Vatican has revived, in a shorter version, an ancient rite of virginal consecration. It will enable Catholic women to take a public vow of virginity while still remaining within secular society, much as women did in the early church before there were religious orders or convents...
Under the plan, women who wish to take the vow would do so in a simple ritual performed by a bishop. It would be a binding, permanent commitment to the virginal state, with dispensation from the decision being reserved to bishops. Lay women taking this vow will be known as "Christian virgins." Unlike nuns, they need not join a religious order, wear any special garb or be required to live in convents or special communities. Beyond maintaining their virginity, they may if they wish function as assistants in the missionary field, in line with their interests and abilities. According...