Aldemar Ceballos spoke no English but invited the young canvasser in, vowing, through the translations of his 16-year-old niece, to vote but agonizing over his indecision.
The filly was called Lisa's Booby Trap, named in part after Snyder's deceased wife and minor league racetrack partner, Lisa Calley, who had succumbed to cancer several years earlier, but not before vowing through a haze of morphine to one day return as a horse.
"I'm going to go step by step to become a big company," he vowed through a translator, sounding every bit the budding capitalist.
He vows, through the use of Palestinian checkpoints and police, to confiscate illegal weapons (although, for now, he refuses to search for weapons in people's homes).
Two Brooklyn police officers and a former officer were convicted yesterday of covering up the brutal assault on Abner Louima in a bitterly contested and emotional verdict that the defendants' families vowed through their tears to fight.
He wanted to raise money for a childhood friend who had developed a potentially paralyzing illness, and vowed, through his Web site, www.maleperm.com, to get a perm and wear it for one week for every $1,000 raised.
In its most memorable set-piece, Charles Bickford's convicted murderer and Kay Johnson's socialite trade marriage-of-convenience vows through the bars of his prison cell, while nearby another convict (played by the singer Russ Columbo) croons a doleful love ballad about "this strange happiness" and an off-screen work party hammers away at Bickford's gallows.
It seemed only too soon that we had to part, but I vowed through this column, not to be stingy and keep Rita Kallerhoff all to myself.
Environmentalists and advocates for the poor are already vowing to march through the streets by the thousands on Saturday to ensure that the link between poverty and environmental decay remains high on the agenda.
TRENTON — Saying he would not squander New Jersey's "last, best hope" to reverse its decline, Christopher J. Christie took office on Tuesday as the state's 55th governor, vowing to break through partisan gridlock to bring about lower taxes, economic resurgence and school choice.
— Mr. Paul just addressed a cheering and hollering crowd of more than 1,000 supporters here, vowing to push through the caucus states and continue a campaign he said was intended to shrink the size of government and its ability to intrude on people's lives.
