Word: vow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombing of the Ryuzyo. He banked to the right around the Ryuzyo's bow-pulled out safely in a mess of gunfire. He was so cool about pulling out way lower than his running mates that their noses are out of joint until the next action, when they vow they will show...
...dedicating TIME wholly to our common cause, the Editors of TIME can and do vow to strain every nerve to do better what they have always aimed to do. The Editors are not unaware of TIME's faults and deficiencies. They are grateful for the constant and progressive criticism of discerning readers. Thanks to them, the Editors hope there may never be a year in which TIME'S standard of performance does not rise...
Adams House contains "Gold Coasters," quite a heterogeneous group who firmly vow that they have everything. They do have a swimming pool, considerable local spirit and frequent fracases with the Lampoon across the street. They take pride also in the fact that they are closest to the classrooms in the Yard...
...Song of Bernadette is the story of an adolescent girl in the French Pyrenees who saw, or indestructibly believed that she saw, the Queen of Heaven. Werfel solemnly vowed to write it one day in 1940 when, in Lourdes, in desperate flight from the Nazis, it must have seemed a miracle to him that he might ever survive to see the shores of the U.S. He reached those shores in safety, and he kept his vow. He has also kept an "older and far more unconscious vow": "In the days when I wrote my first verses I vowed that...
Once only, The Viper broke his vow. In Tokyo's great earthquake of 1923, he whimpered himself on to a U.S. warship anchored off Yokohama...