Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit splinters, Horse is beguiled by an Indian maiden named Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei). The only way to bed her is to wed her, he reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes the Sun Vow, a masochistic ritual in which he is hoisted twelve feet above the earth, dangling by blades thrust into his pectoral muscles. He wins Running Deer, and eventually his freedom, but not before a series of unnatural tragedies destroys much of the tribe and all of his new-found identity...
...been around for almost 350 years, and some great things have happened here. Recently, some of the outstanding events have been the 1943 fencing duel with real swords on a Weld stairway and the Harvard-Yale football game in 1968. But anyone at Rindge that May 2 will vow that what happened there that night constituted Harvard's finest five hours. Some members of the crowd were so overcome that they were talking about turning Harvard into a grease state...
Once little Merilee saw an animal kicked. And swore on the spot never to kick an animal. Now the vow has been betrayed. Dear Alfred. She is writing him a letter. In this heat even rattle snakes entwine in the shade of a cactus. And on torrid desert updrafts eagles cushion themselves for making eggs fertile. But we humans were not meant for such comforts. Longings we may have, sensations that alone we are incomplete. Organs for coupling and mouths for communication. But pity us, old Alfred. We are, finally, not built for it. Togethered, humans lose their selves, forget...
Postmaster General Blount at first seemed to rule out any attempt to coerce the unions or use the National Guard or the Army to move mail. Later, the Government's attitude hardened. At week's end President Nixon broke four days of silence to vow: "I will meet my constitutional obligations to see to it that the mails will go through." He did not say how, but his statement, "We have means to deliver the mail," strongly hinted at a call-out of troops...
...moreover, the church has ordained married converts from the Protestant ministry. Theologically, Pope Paul's critics contend that the church has tended to confuse two separate vocations: priesthood and celibacy. Both are considered gifts of God, but why should they always be given to the same person? A vow of chastity may be necessary for the discipline of a religious order, but is it equally essential for the parish ministry? Why should there not be married priests as well as celibate ones...