Word: vowing
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...head home this Thursday, be it ten blocks from work or clear across the country, we are changed. We vow to slow down, to revel in our good fortune. We vow to appreciate the people we love - and perhaps more importantly, to appreciate the people we can?t stand...
...holidays we all revert back to our younger, less confident selves, trying desperately to mesh our adult existences and expectations into the sticky and alluring web of childhood roles and memories. This year, we vow, we will behave like someone who has her own apartment, pays her own bills, holds down a steady job and negotiates the pitfalls of a long-term relationship. We will not dissolve into tears when well-meaning neighbors ask us when are we getting married, already. We will not stomp up the stairs and kick our bedroom door closed if someone questions our take...
...have been rendered speechless. Three days after the attack, this man of few words picked up a bullhorn rather than a mike to reach the men of action at ground zero. A few days later, he was criticized for sounding like Dirty Harry channeling Winston Churchill--but his vow to take bin Laden "dead or alive" had an appealing clarity. And last week an impromptu Bush put the war in perspective after introducing the Nigerian President in the Rose Garden. Squinting into the sun, which eliminates any temptation to smirk or bite his lip, Bush promised that...
...kept his vow, although it’s taken the past week to work out the details...
...like to think they did it. We may never know. Yet Glick's last words to his wife Lyzbeth, like Burnett's vow of action to his wife, make us want to believe they prevailed, taking Flight 93 down in a Pennsylvania coalfield far from any metropolis. "We're going to rush the hijackers," said Glick. Then he put down the phone. --By Josh Tyrangiel...