Word: commit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race? "At first, to be sure, they'd have a grand time jeering at, duping and exploiting its innocence; but I doubt if our half-animal cunning would long be a match for godlike wisdom, selfless valor and perfect unanimity." Still, "against them we shall, if we can, commit all the crimes we have already committed against creatures certainly human but differing from us in features and pigmentation; and the starry heavens will become an object . . . of intolerable guilt." Earth missionaries might try to force on "creatures that did not need to be saved that plan of Salvation which...
NICKEL SURPLUS is building up for first time since Korean war. With its stockpile filled and free world capacity running well ahead of demand, Government will try to renegotiate 45 contracts that commit it to buy heavily of Canadian and U.S. nickel through the mid-1960s at prices up to $1.14 per lb., v. current market price...
...would not commit itself. Yet it was openly concerned about the plight of the miners. Its raw materials chief, Jesse C. Johnson, was re-examining the wisdom of the moratorium on mill construction, will report to the congressional committee in mid-March...
...read with delight your Jan. 27 report of the case against the woman who bore a child through artificial insemination. Did she commit an act "far less responsible and far less human than adultery," as the learned Archbishop of Canterbury claims? Does it "violate the exclusive union set up between husband and wife," and "defraud the child begotten, and deceive both his putative kinsmen and society at large"? If so, the archbishop has splotched the character of the Holy Ghost. Did Joseph sue Mary for adultery? The woman in the case should tell her husband that the child...
...busiest intersections, where stalled motorists and scared-running pedestrians were urged to help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill. There was even a suggestion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the suicide-minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide with overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved especially popular with students cramming to pass the tough exams for government jobs...