Word: vow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vow by the sea and the fish and the dragon's tremble; I vow by the mountains and the grass, and the grass and the trees are startled." It is said that our great patriot Admiral Yi Soon Shin had this engraved on his sword during the time he defended Korea from Japanese aggression more than 400 years...
Total Freedom. Today there are more than 200 houses of Opus Dei throughout the world, with four classes of membership. Top class is called Numeraries-an estimated 7,000 members of the professions (both priests and laymen), who take full vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Most of them live and study together, contribute all their income above bare subsistence to Opus Dei. The second class: Oblates, some 12,000 intellectuals, workers and peasants, who must take the vow of chastity but do not have to take the others. The next class: Supernumeraries, some 25,000, whose vows are conditional...
...Greene ingeniously uses a cocky teen-ager to get him round a few tough corners-has too much of the real pull of a good detective story to be decently disclosed. On the other hand, the disclosures themselves-involving not just a miracle but a miracle born of a vow-constitute the very heart and soul of the play. In journeying from effect to cause, Greene has also, in his own way, moved from a character's question to a playwright's answer...
...replace a drafted rookie) as well as one of the best clutch-hitting faculties in baseball and a healthy desire to keep his $33,000-a-year salary coming in. "Naturally I'm. disappointed to leave the Dodgers," said Robby last week, in quiet amendment to his onetime vow that he would never play for another team. "But now that it's done and I'm a member of a different team, I'll be out to beat the Dodgers as best...
...drew up the manifesto that launched Hungary's revolution against the Habsburg monarch. The yeast of rebellion among young Hungarian intellectuals had been fermenting these past few months in a group called the Petofi Club. A voice in the crowd shouted a line from a Petofi poem: "We vow we can never be slaves." Idol Smashing. The Petofi spirit spread like wildfire. All over Budapest there were demonstrations. Student manifestoes demanded religious freedom, the release of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, the public trial of Rakosi and his lieutenants, sweeping economic reforms. One demanded that the Russians explain what they...