Word: vowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago. Inspired by his presence and prodded by Communist-line Radio Commentator William Gailmor, a luncheon meeting of "businessmen for Wallace" raised $15,000 for his campaign. That night a capacity crowd of 22,000 filled the Chicago Stadium. They listened to New Dealer Rexford Tugwell vow: "We have a program of our own." They listened to Paul Robeson sing "For the people's march is on." They cheered hysterically as Wallace, looking grey and a little jowly, suddenly materialized in the glaring spotlights. When the plate was passed, they gave $39,000 more for the Wallace campaign...
When Mrs. Lucy Rines, 56, died in Boston's Beth Israel Hospital almost five years ago, her husband put on a black necktie and made a vow. He vowed that he would not discard his badge of mourning until he had won a victory in court over the doctors he blamed for his wife's death...
...oldest Protestant church" in western Christendom celebrated a centennial last week. In 1179 a rich Lyons merchant named Peter Waldo took a vow of poverty and defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible on his own. Excommunicated as a heretic, Waldo fled to the hills with his followers. For nearly 700 years the Waldenses held out against papal persecution in the valleys of the Cottian Alps. A hundred years ago they were granted religious freedom. But their centennial found today's Waldenses still worried about their status under Italy's present government...
...Goodwins did not always feed on misery. Once they were fertile land known to the Kentish peasants as Lomea (The Low Island), and belonged to Earl Godwine, friend of Edward the Confessor. One legend says that Godwine, hard-pressed by his enemies, vowed to the Virgin that if he got back to Lomea he would build a steeple to Tenterden Church; when he escaped he forgot the vow. Another version: that the Abbot of Canterbury built the steeple from money intended for the island's dikes...
...vow was taken by each of you . . . when before God and man you made a solemn and deliberate promise that come what may, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, you will always be true and faithful to one another...