Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years Peking has been staking its prestige on its solemn vow to "liberate Formosa." It is Peking's declared No. 1 foreign-policy objective. It serves the additional purposes of justifying its large armies, of keeping tensions stirred up, of taking its people's minds off crop failures and floods. Chiang Kai-shek serves the historical function of being tyranny's external enemy, who can be blamed for exertions demanded and identified as the sponsor of anyone who dares challenge the regime. To renounce all this, to concede the U.N.'s right to talk...
...index was the stock market, reflecting the feeling of investors. The elections set off a surge of buying; the Dow Jones industrial average climbed to its highest level since 1929. Evidently, investors accepted the Republican vow to avoid creeping socialism and the Democratic pledge to prevent creeping unemployment. The middle of the road might be crowded, but it was comfortable...
...Wherfor have Sir Gawaine and his brethren sworne a greate vow to journee to the Holly Woode, and onloose the fayr Colhumbia, allso to slay the dreadfull dragoun Metr Ogol Dwynma Yer, and anie other of his breede yt they shal finde. Avaunt! eftsoons bee al mal engine full awroke...
...which was a collection of Old Testament narratives illustrated by Guy Rowe. He found the models for some of these faces in his favorite Manhattan restaurant. The tired face of the floor sweeper, for example, was his inspiration for Jephthah, the man who made the rash vow. For Adam, he used his own son Charles, and Guy himself posed before a mirror for David mourning Absalom...
...track him down were combing the wild hills in a desperate last attempt to bring him to justice, Man Singh's men made a swift raid on a village and shot dead the Brahman priest's only surviving relative. At last the dacoit had fulfilled his vow to Kali...