Word: vowed
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...Pope had come to Fátima, ironically, to fulfill a vow of gratitude to the Virgin Mary for having saved his life just a year earlier, when Turkish Assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot him in St. Peter's Square. That attempt occurred on the very day, May 13, and almost at the same hour that three shepherd children tending their flocks in Fátima claimed to have seen the first of six apparitions of the Virgin, in 1917. To John Paul, his escape from death and his remarkable recovery from his wounds were nothing less than...
April 26--In a surprise move, the 24 Black protesters voluntarily end Harvard's longest building occupation by leaving Mass Hall at 2:45 p.m. fists upraised. In a rally afterwards, they vow to continue to pressure Harvard to sell its Gulf holdings...
...policy still seems constricted by rigid antiCommunism. Responding to overtures from Mexico and Nicaragua, the Administration in early April offered the Sandinista government in Managua what amounted to a deal: if Nicaragua would pledge to stop fomenting insurrection in neighboring countries (meaning primarily El Salvador), the U.S. would vow not to take actions that could destabilize the regime in Nicaragua, and might even resume economic aid. At the moment, Washington is putting off a Nicaraguan request to open formal negotiations, in part because Haig has been tied up with the Falklands crisis, but also because it is still not convinced...
Since 1542, the Society of Jesus has been the "Pope's light cavalry," serving as front-line educators and missionaries. The most elite Jesuits swear a special vow of fealty to the Pope, which in practice has allowed Roman Catholicism's biggest and most influential men's order to pursue a course throughout the world that is largely independent of local bishops and parishes. But during the past decade the light cavalry has also been somewhat independent of what the Pope would like. John Paul II is not a Pontiff to suffer such waywardness in prayerful silence...
...Chinese, but in many respects the Americans as well. Reagan's boast that the last chapter of Communism is now being written and that the West will "transcend" its Soviet rival must have sounded to listeners in Moscow every bit as threatening as Nikita Khrushchev's famous vow 25 years ago, "We will bury you," sounded to American ears...