Word: vowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal at Nuremberg and later largely kept his vow to retreat "into the security of silence...
...inquiry was a burden as ineradicable as the number, A-7713, tattooed on his arm by a German official. "So heavy was my anguish," he remembers, "that in the spring of 1945 I made a vow: not to speak, not to touch upon the essential for at least ten years. Long enough to unite the language of humanity with the silence of the dead...
Opponents vow to fight the plan in Congress, which must approve the sale. Chairman Hays Watkins of rival CSX promises that the sale "will be resisted by every resource at our command and in every forum where the challenge can be brought." Conrail Chairman L. Stanley Crane, a retired president of Southern Railway who took over in 1981, opposes the sale to any of the bidders because he thinks the asking price is too low. He wants instead to sell the company through a public stock offering. Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania agrees with that plan because it would...
...some, there was consolation in Prime Minister Peres' vow that "we shall not rest until all our brothers and sisters from Ethiopia come safely back home." Nonetheless, said one dejected Jewish Agency official, "all I know is that they're not coming...
Given the chill of the past four years, it comes as a relief that the two sides are willing to sit down to talk at all. President Reagan had to ignore some of his own harsh rhetoric; the Soviets had to abandon their vow not to return to the negotiating table until the U.S. pulled its missiles out of Europe. Thus, it is no wonder that the world will be watching, and hoping, when Secretary of State George Shultz joins Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week to renew nuclear arms-control talks after a yearlong hiatus...