Word: vowing
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...innocent, I would fight it to my dying day.") Or the report could have stemmed from a fleeting mood, his aides suggested. On more than one occasion, Agnew has been known, after a bad round on the course, to toss his clubs in a corner and darkly vow never to play golf again...
...mixers and the picnic. You (the men) will probably get sickened by the way some of your female peers will greet you. You (the women) will indubitably vow never again to have dealings with some of the vultures there. But you'll probably all get some sense of the types of kids who came to Harvard with you: you'll be turned off by the unexpected mediocrity of your classmates and simultaneously turned on to wallowing in your new-found confidence...
...middle-aged people who resign themselves to the fact that they must, indeed, marry to live fulfilled and meaningful lives, so each becomes engaged to a partner in whom he has little more than passing interest. Naturally, they meet each other on a cruise and fall in love. They vow to meet on the Empire State Building in six months after each has cleaned up respective loose ends, and on her hurried walk to embrace her lover, she is hit by a New York cabdriver. Enough? No, there's more, but no sense in giving it away. The saving grace...
...loss about how to clean it up," he jokes. His eleven-year-old lectures him on Women's Liberation. "She tells me how she is a person and has to be able to express herself," he says in disbelief. In prison, he once took a vow that he would never let long-haired boys into his house. Now, he admits, "well, they've come and they've stayed...
When the samurai hordes poured across the Sea of Japan into Korea almost four centuries ago, a legendary Korean kisaeng (courtesan) named Gae Non vowed to kill the invaders' leading general. She toasted her prey at an outdoor party, then bound herself to him with a sash as a token of eternal love. A moment later, so the story goes, she plunged into a nearby ravine, dragging the general with her to death and fulfilling her vow. In Seoul these days, the kisaeng response to a new and different kind of Japanese invasion is a lot more affectionate...