Word: vowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know," said the Negro, "but if your boy is dead, I vow to kill mine in your presence...
Individual beatings are applied, in the main, to extort from the victim his land tax. Mr. Brailsford traveled through district after district where the peasants had taken and kept this vow: "We will pay no taxes until Gandhi is released from jail...
Early one morning last week Judge David G. Jenkins walked into his Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas at Youngstown, Ohio, with a thoughtful frown on his face. Since April he had been studying the famed suit by which Cyrus Stephen Eaton attempted to fulfill his vow that "Youngstown Sheet and Tube will never merge with Bethlehem Steel Corp." (TIME, March...
Ohio. Within the fortnight Cleveland put 9,000 idle men to work. The city sent a representative to Detroit to study its advanced system of Unemployment relief (TIME, Oct. 27). Remembering their religious vow to "let no one go hungry while there is food," the Amish sect sent supplies from their farms into Cleveland...
Lorenzaccio's Libretto proved to have greater distinction than its music. The central character is a henchman in the court of the Medici. He procures young girls for his cousin the duke, performs so many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio...