Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area. A few weeks ago, the troops beat off two Viet Cong companies that attacked a hamlet west of Phumy and burned down several houses, leaving 400 peasants homeless. Government officials concede that the Communist guerrillas could overrun Phumy again should they mount enough strength. All the government can vow-and what it does vow-is to make any such onslaught extremely expensive for the Reds, and ultimately to drive them out again...
...Embarrassments. During the week-long debate, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore laid down the only blanket denunciation of the bill, claimed that it was "the embodiment of fiscal folly" and "unconscionable" in its tax reduction "for the already rich." Yet despite his vow to try to scuttle the bill, Gore's only victory was to tax Americans living abroad more heavily. Passed 47-41, his proposal would require U.S. citizens living overseas more than three years to pay full tax on all income over $6,000; they now enjoy an annual $35,000 exemption. Those abroad 17 out of each...
Reading the Cables. Behind the electric rejuvenation of France stands De Gaulle, that towering and granite-hard old man who is determined to fulfill his vow that, under him, France will "undertake great actions, assume great proportions, and greatly serve her own interest and that of the human race as well." The strategy is De Gaulle's, but he is fortunate in having at his side a nearly flawless technician in his coolly astute Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, 57, a diplomat with the surgically precise intellect and single-minded determination necessary to implement so ambitious a foreign...
...ceilinged boudoirs with brilliant red curtains. Many of Bombay's estimated 70,000 whores are Devadasis, who practice prostitution in the name of religion. The custom dates back to the 3rd century, and, in its present form, Devadasi parents who seek a particular favor from their deity will vow, if the favor is granted, to make a prostitute of an infant daughter when she eventually reaches the age of puberty...
...vow to guard you, Fatherland...