Word: vow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should leave this church without making a binding vow that, with God's grace, you will try from this moment on to be a better Christian ... If you are not changed, the carols of Christmas Day will not proclaim the birth of the Savior of mankind, no matter how beautifully they may be sung. Instead, they will echo with the hollow sound of human hypocrisy and say only to a skeptical world, 'The so-called Incarnation is nothing but a sentimental fraud...
Communist Tito stuck firmly to his vow to march into Zone A of the Free Territory of Trieste the moment Italian troops march in to take over from Anglo-American authorities. He continued to build up troop concentrations along the Yugoslav-Italian border, the Zone A border and inside Zone B, which he runs. Not many miles away, on the Italian side, some of Italy's crack military units stood at the ready...
...have] resolved that I will never again go see a movie which features or stars such people [as] flout the sanctity of the marriage vow. And I love the movies...
...furious. The Rumanian High Court declared the marriage null & void, but Carol lived with Zizi until his money ran out; when a son was born and the registrar refused to enter the prince's name as father, Carol wrote a letter to Zizi acknowledging his parenthood and vowing undying love. The vow lasted one year, until Queen Marie found her impoverished son a royal match: cool, blonde Princess Helen of Greece. In due course Prince Michael was born...
...stern, dry man" took his place, and "my delightful roamings through the gavottes and bourrées of Bach were at an end." She was very unhappy. "I dream only one thing, when I am grown to play only Bach, Haydn and Mozart." She sealed this vow in an envelope, to be opened "when I am a big girl. But I opened it the next day, of course...