Word: commit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collected from drillers operating beyond the three-mile limit. The U.S., said the brief, has always fixed its national boundary at three miles offshore and has urged other nations to do likewise. "Manifestly, state boundaries cannot extend beyond the national boundary. By annexing Texas, the U.S. certainly did not commit itself to relinquish what has been a fundamental cornerstone of its world policy. That would mean in effect that Texas was not annexed to the U.S., but that the U.S. was annexed to Texas...
...little mining town in Ontario find happiness with a continental pastor who has advanced ideas? Last week Cobalt (pop. 2,400) was all riled up about Pastor Helmuth Ludwig Wipprecht and the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery...
...citizen of "Gibbsville," a small town in Pennsylvania, "a gentleman in a world that has no use for gentlemen." Decent, limited, middleaged, he is as set in his honorable ways as any samurai in his Bushido. and step by inevitable step the story describes how he is driven to commit what might be called O'Hara-kiri -he drinks himself to death...
...proposal is quickly contested by non-Gaullist "Companions." "De Gaulle in his quality as general?" asks Pflimlin. "No one has the right to interpret a silence," snaps Popular Republican Maurice Schumann in sardonic reference to De Gaulle's refusal to commit himself. Muses Peasant Party Deputy Henri Dorgeères-d'Halluin: "I would first wish to give a last chance to our existing institutions...
...says a G.M. salesman with some bitterness. "Then, to prove you are really chic, you find something wrong with all cars-maybe one word, 'Horrible.' That shows everybody you have good taste-and it conceals the real fact: you don't want to commit yourself to paying off a car for the next two years because you don't know if you will have a job next month...