Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stevenson partisans, who once dreamed of a Stevenson-Kennedy dream ticket, now realize that Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy is a far more formidable presidential candidate than they had believed possible. And Texas' Lyndon Johnson has corralled upwards of 300 Southern delegates; Johnson's backers vow their votes will never go to Stevenson. Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence, one of the last of the Northern Democratic bosses inclined toward Stevenson, last week flew to Springfield, Mo. to pay public tribute to Missouri's Stuart Symington. Said one former Stevenson follower (now actively campaigning for Kennedy): "There...
Knox had yet to feel any sense of religious vocation, but he had more than the nominal teen-ager's attraction to the religious life. At 17 he made a vow of celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity . . . I must have 'power to attend upon the Lord without impediment...