Word: commit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over a nationwide radio hookup the Minister of Interior for Prussia, blustering Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, cried: "The Reichstag fire was to have been the signal for the outbreak of open civil war! . . . The Communists had in readiness 'terror squads' of 200 each. . . . These were to commit their dastardly acts disguised as units of our own Nazi Storm Troops and the Stahlhelm. . . . The women and children of high Government officials were to have been kidnapped as hostages and used in the civil war as 'living shields...
...saying, both drew their daggers, bared their stomachs, made clumsy efforts to commit harakiri. Pouncing police grabbed both bunglers before they had much harmed themselves, bundled them off to jail, announced, "they will both recover." Meanwhile a party of friends of the two men (whose names police kept secret) were busy with a hunger strike against the income tax evasions, had not eaten for more than a week...
...policy without taking into account the opinion of other nations." Knowing that while he spoke a new Japanese offensive was crashing against Jehol, President Hymans added, "We still hope the day will come when our offer will be accepted by both parties and that neither of them will commit any irreparable act. . . . The League of Nations is working and will continue to work [for] the peace of the world...
...French Revolution of the eighteenth, is but another stage in the progress of mankind toward perfection? Or should we think, with Marcus Aurelius, that the man of forty years if he have a grain of sense, . . . has been all that has been and shall be'?" Professor Becker refuses to commit himself explicitly, but he is obviously inclined to agree with the Roman Emperor...
...confused with Japan's unique ronin. Extremely proud & snobbish, the ronio take no pay for their thuggery, which is exclusively political and supposed to be patriotic. Generally attached to some potent Japanese politician, a modern group of ronin seldom commit violence themselves, spend their time plotting and instigating patriotic youngsters, such as the assassins of ex-Finance Minister Inouye (TIME, Feb. 22) and the Empire's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, March 14). Most famed, almost deified in Japan, are the Forty-Seven Ronin, heroes of feudal thuggery who avenged the death of their daimyo...