Word: vowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie, which portrays Gandhi as utterly chaste, seems to have left out scenes from real life of the Indian leader's young female followers fighting amongst each other for the honor of sleeping naked with Gandhi and cuddling him in their arms. This was his way of testing his vow of abstinence in preparation for coming struggles which required moral fortitude. Nor is mention made of the daily enemas Gandhi gave the young girls, or the enemas and nude massages they gave him each...
...English Parliament. Since 1967, the Northern Presbyterians have broadly accepted a number of creeds as their standards of faith, in addition to the Westminster. The effect, to conservative Southerners, has been to make more ambiguous the church's basic beliefs. The committee required a stricter doctrinal vow for future clergy but also agreed that the reunited church would write its final confession of faith only after the merger. Southern conservatives agreed because they won another, far more significant compromise. The plan includes an "escape clause" that allows Southern congregations, but not Northern ones, to leave any time between...
...small khaki tent that shakes and rocks from the 18-wheelers roaring past on the interstate below, Mike MacKay, 30, cooks instant soup on his hot plate, clears his table on top of a portable toilet and defiantly mutters a solemn vow. "I'm set to do this for two or three years," he says. "My wife and I are determined to get a house." Pitted in a bizarre promotional contest to win an $18,000 mobile home, donated by Love Homes, a Pennsylvania firm, MacKay and two other men have been camping for the past 18 weeks...
...pull-out was a dispute over national holidays. Four of ten red-letter days on the current Namibian calendar are of South African origin, and Mudge had proposed keeping only dates of purely local significance. Among the holidays to be dropped was the Dec. 16 Day of the Vow, a commemoration of an 1838 victory by white Afrikaners over the Zulu nation in the Battle of Blood River. Members of Namibia's white minority (75,600 out of a total population of more than 1 million) complained, and South Africa vetoed the legislation. As Mudge retold it, that...
...realistically about their consequences. Even a "limited" nuclear conflict would, in his opinion, quickly lead to a transcendent catastrophe. "There is no issue at stake in our political relations with the Soviet Union ... which could conceivably be worth a nuclear war," writes the dean of American Kremlinologists. Therefore the vow to retaliate against Soviet aggression with the American nuclear arsenal quite simply does not make sense to him. It is either a bluff or a suicide threat-in neither case a basis for sound policy...