Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time the union delegates gathered last week on the Isle of Man, union after Tinion had voted to commit them selves to unilateral nuclear disarmament...
...Communist Party and since 1949 East Germany's first President; of a heart attack; in East Berlin. A survival artist who deserted the Kaiser's army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World War II. Coming back with the Red troops...
Actress Kohner is a young woman with excellent teeth who plays Hamilton's sister. Her lines run to such glass-crackers as "ah had to convince Mother that ah would commit man very own suicide if ah didn't have man way." Eventually she tries suicide her very own way, and the script implies that her parents are largely to blame. In fact, the film is very severe with parents; all the brats have culpable elders...
Belgium messed up her attempt at Empire. After systematically looting that unhappy land for 80 years was she honestly surprised at the outburst of hatred against her? To commit the indecency of shamelessly abandoning the Congo to chaos only to return a week later in the guise of cop appears to me typical of the hypocrisy that now seems the accepted hallmark of international diplomacy. I am not impressed...
...publishers commit non-books, but some do it more than others. One of the most persistent is Bernard Geis, who operates as a kind of non-publisher, distributing his wares through Bennett Cerf's Random House, and setting up shop to promote non-books, including those of backers Art Linkletter (The Secret World of Kids) and Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me). Says Geis: "I want to do anything that can be done to get the audience back to books." Then he adds, less piously: "I don't care what kind of book...