Word: vow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mohandas Gandhi faced a revolt against his one-man campaign against sex in marriage. One follower, puzzled by Gandhi's exhortations to newlywed disciples to vow "self-restraint until Swaraj [Indian self-rule]," called for an explanation. "To marry thus," he wrote, "is surely an inconsistency. He who wants to refrain has no need to marry. ... To me the vow appears ridiculous...
...always the same vow, same youth, same pure eyes, same caress, same revelation. But . . . never the same woman. The cards said I will meet her, but without recognizing her. Loving love ... 150 castles where we were going to love were not enough for me. I will have 100,000 more built tomorrow. (Woman's voice. gradually fading : Mon amour, mon amour, mon amour, mon amour...
...best they learn is implicit in the vow they take, "that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ... so help me God." The history of World War II is filled with the names of men who died in fulfillment of that solemn oath...
Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, having formally reneged on his vow to ride Hirohito's white horse, made the mistake of meeting up with his old cavalry man friend, Major General William Chase, in a Tokyo suburb. The General proffered the Admiral a hoary steed and insisted that he trot his stuff. Taking the bit in his teeth, the Admiral ventured a slow, seagoing jog, dismounted quickly, gasped: "Don't leave me alone with this animal. I was never so scared in my life...
Midwives in Latin America now have their own version of the famed Hippocratic oath. As part of the cooperative health campaign of the U.S. and 18 Latin American countries, midwives are required to vow: "I swear in the name of God and my own conscience that I will never practice abortions . . . that I will always make use of the umbilical sterile dressing and of silver nitrate solution at one percent...