Word: vowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shifting stance once again, the President dropped into a fighting crouch, dukes-up on Watergate and the threat of impeachment. Conciliation having failed in Operation Candor, he and his defenders took the offensive, carrying out that pugnacious vow made last week at a private White House meeting with a group of Republican Congressmen. The themes were clear: he was innocent; he would never resign; he would resist impeachment as a narrow partisan political attack on him. And he got some help when Egil Krogh Jr. contended that the President was not responsible for one burglary carried out by the White...
...However, Kagan predicts a change away from permissiveness as today's 19-year-olds start having children. "They will look back on their childhood and interpret part of their Angst to the fact that their parents seemed confused about what to teach them. And they will vow that this will not happen to their children...
...Israel. Last week, showing new unity and clout, ten Arab countries announced that production for November will be slashed a minimum of 25% below the September total of 20.5 million bbl. per day. Though there has been promising progress toward a lasting settlement in the Middle East, the Arabs vow that they will continue their cutbacks and embargoes until Israel withdraws behind its 1967 borders and settles the Palestinian refugees' claims for land or money?or both...
...sentiment among Israeli soldiers was to smash the Arabs and go all the way to Damascus. Israeli tankers chalked ON TO DAMASCUS on the metal fronts of their Sherman and Centurion tanks. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, watching the battle from a redoubt on the Heights, made an angry vow: "We're going to show the Syrians that the road runs from Tel Aviv to Damascus as well as from Damascus to Tel Aviv." Dayan's order to his forces was to destroy as much of the Syrian army as possible along the way. In a cruel but effective...
...innocent, I would fight it to my dying day.") Or the report could have stemmed from a fleeting mood, his aides suggested. On more than one occasion, Agnew has been known, after a bad round on the course, to toss his clubs in a corner and darkly vow never to play golf again...