Word: vowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Well just the other day I repeated my vow not to accept binding arbitration...
Throughout the incorporated city of Rajneeshpuram in central Oregon's Wasco County, young followers of the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh bustle about their business. The Bhagwan, who set up the community in 1981, has taken a vow of silence; he tours his 64,000-acre ranch in a $119,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur with armed guards. His followers, mostly middle-class refugees from urban living, smile frequently, embrace warmly, and enjoy poker and blackjack in their private casino...
...Duarte's call to join elections; they know too well the propensity of the Salvadoran military to shoot up anyone to the left of Roberto D'Aubisson. Even Duarte's meeting with the rebels at La Palma has been met only with the snarls of the death squads, who vow death to those offering a middle way out of El Salvador's problems...
...skies uncontested; if anything, the competition aloft* is growing more fierce: the European Space Agency is becoming an increasingly aggressive contender for commercial cargo and the Pentagon is planning to divert some of its space payloads to its own expendable rockets. But despite some past stumbling, NASA officials vow to prevail. The proud new ship Discovery has shown them...
...battled with pistols, rocks and knives against tanks and cannons. In May 1943, along with the buildings that held them, the fighters were reduced to ashes. Monuments have risen to commemorate the uprising, and periodically a dwindling number of survivors meet to recall the martyrs and make the celebrated vow "Never again." But another ghetto existed about 75 miles from Warsaw and an eternity away from a deaf, distracted world. Hardly anyone, then or now, ever knew of Lodz. And yet it was there, in the second largest concentration in all of Europe, that some 240,000 Jews were crowded...