Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legend that is all but drowned in a sea of pretentious metaphysical subfusc. The dybbuk story, a ghetto version of Romeo and Juliet given classic shape in Shloime Ansky's 1916 Yiddish play, involves the star-crossed lovers named Channon and Leah. Once their fathers had taken a vow that some day their children should wed. By the time boy meets girl, the vow has been forgotten, Leah's family has become wealthy, and Channon is merely a poor rabbinical student. When Leah's father arranges a more suitable match, Channon in desperation invokes the kabbalah...
Still, some local landowners vow not to sell at any price. Others, including Mearl Chairman Harry Mattin, have refused to commit themselves until Maine's board of environmental protection officially rules on the refinery project. What they all fear is a disastrous oil spill that could tar the coastline and wipe out the fisheries...
...Daniel Ellsberg truly wishes to repent for his sins, and to convince us of his repentance, than let him donate his wordly goods to an appropriate charitable organization, shave his head, and take a nine-year vow of silence. Steve Nelson Harvard...
Willie Farah swore with 19th century capitalistic fervor that he would never allow a union in his Farah Manufacturing Co. plants and kept that vow through not only a 93-week strike but a nationwide boycott against his products: men's slacks. Yet last week he sat down to breakfast with officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in New York City and capitulated totally. He agreed to recognize the union as sole bargaining agent for all employees of the El Paso-based firm, rehire all strikers, and begin immediate negotiations for a wage-and-benefit contract. Said...
...Judiciary Committee in its investigation But as the clapping died, Nixon threw in a critical qualification: " in any way I consider consistent with my responsibilities for the office of the presidency." He will do nothing, he explained, that "weakens the office of the President." Nixon then repeated an earlier vow: "I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected...