Word: vow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he set off for America at the age of 25, Athanassios Konstantinides, a poor Greek farmer in Asia Minor, made a vow to a 15-year-old girl. Never would he be "lured by an American beauty"; when his fortune was made, he would send back to the Turkish village of Yala-zik for his beloved Soultana, and they would be married. Soultana promised to wait for him. That...
Zarur is untroubled by such attacks, has just announced a momentous decision: he is about to get married. "I fascinate women," he explained before a meeting of his closest followers. "Every day I receive dozens of love letters that remain unanswered because of the vow of celibacy that I took. At the time, I needed to dedicate myself to building up our legion, but now the work is done. Jesus told me that celibacy is no longer necessary." Anxious disciples wanted to know whether the marriage (the bride's identity is still secret) would make any difference...
...reader on a skillfully guided tour of the fortress; it is her special merit that she observes the outside as well as the inside (including some rarely seen rooms), with equal sensibility. Two by Two contains four studies of the married state, each taking its title from a vow in the marriage service...
With this in mind, the first Paulists used the word "promises" instead of "vows" (of poverty and obedience). In fact, it amounted to the same thing, but the Paulists reasoned that a country still unused to the Catholic priesthood and devoted to individual liberty might take more kindly to a man who had made a promise than to one who had bound himself by a vow. The Paulists also went in heavily for American go-getting methods. In 1865 they established the first Catholic monthly in the U.S., the Catholic World (present circ. 25,000). They set up their...
Married. Kwame Nkrumah, 48, U.S.-educated Prime Minister of Ghana, perennial bachelor ("Every woman in the Gold Coast is my bride") who kept his vow to remain unmarried until his country achieved independence: and Fathia Halim Ritzk, about 26, a Cairo university graduate; in Accra, Ghana...