Word: vow
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...last, began El Retorno, fulfilling the dictator's endlessly repeated vow to come back some day to the troubled country where the name of Perón still commands the almost religious adulation of 3,000,000 followers. His pledge to return was originally proposed by Peronista leaders as an expedient to help reunite their slowly splintering movement. At first, El Lider was lukewarm to the idea, but gradually, as Perón talked more and more about it, the vision of a triumphal recovery of power became an obsession. Isabelita, too, became infected, soon dreamed of replacing...
Relentlessly probing his own consciousness, he tries to fulfill his vow to give his fellow men a picture of their fate. Beckmann's numerous self-portraits testify to his preoccupation with defining his identity, allowing us to share in these moments of self-confrontation. He began to draw himself at an early age--his 1898 "Self-Portrait with Soap Bubbles" is an idyllic scene of the fourteen-year-old Beckmann, facing sideways, blowing soap bubbles across a whole countryside of space. This leisurely, carefree, open stance does not fit him for long, for within three years he produces...
...from the pressure on Huong to reshuffle his Cabinet to include direct Buddhist representation, other political factions were raising their voices. Disregarding a warning by Huong against public demonstrations, a noisy rally of the National Student Union concluded with a call for dissolution of the new government and a vow to take to the streets to enforce the demand. The politicians were also sharpening their knives for Nguyen Khanh, who had only recently stepped aside as civilian leader, but stayed on as military commander in chief. In his lurching efforts to build a workable government, Khanh had purged many powerful...
...Augusta, Ga., a crowd of 5,000 loudly cheered Miller's vow that a Republican victory will mean recognition of a Cuban government in exile and U.S. permission for renewed exile raids against Castro. At Miami Stadium, 30 khaki-clad survivors of the Bay of Pigs marched across the rain-soaked baseball diamond to present Miller with a "revered emblem"-a gold-knobbed flagstaff representing their Battalion 2506. It was flagless, they bitterly explained, because their battalion flag had been presented to John F. Kennedy, who had promised that it would be returned "in a free Havana." The emblem...
July 1964: MDC modifies underpass plans to save 11,500 square ft. of park land. Opponents vow to continue to fight...