Word: vow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
...Only Brahmachari knows where he got his version of the story and, having taken a vow of silence, he isn't talking...
...latter-day switch on the "Vow" boys of 1933-35, who swore U.S.C. would never beat them. U.S.C. never...
Wolf-Ferrari based his Ruffians on a farce by 18th Century Carlo Goldoni: two prosperous Venetian merchants arrange a marriage of convenience for their children, and, being unromantic old curmudgeons, vow that the young couple shall not be allowed to meet until they reach the altar. Their wives, being romantic busybodies, vow that the youngsters shall meet anyhow, and thereby thinly hangs the opera...
Finally, there was some polite snickering over the possibility that Evita was a victim of her own vanity. Though her own friends vow she is 32, the Argentine Who's Who, in a biography dictated by Evita herself, states that she is 29-a year less than the age set by the constitution for candidates for the nation's two top offices. Chirped the New York Daily News: "Eva would rather be 29 than Veep...