Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain that neither the physicists who proposed this project, nor the members of the Atomic Energy Commission who approved it, ever believed that it might contribute, even slightly, to weapon development. Furthermore, extraordinary care has been exercised to assure that expensive new scientific projects like the Accelerator do not commit the university to permanent investment. When they have outlived their usefulness these facilities will be eliminated far more easily than smaller ones contributed by private donors in the past...
Grass points his finger at those who do not act when they should as well as at those who commit a crime. He scorns David Ben-Gurion for saving his friendship with Konrad Adenauer in the face of Adenauer's appointment of Hans Globke as a cabinet minister. Globke wrote the commentaries to the Nuremberg race laws, Grass points out. He agrees with the German students who hate Axel Casar Springer, the press lord who preaches violence, who is a "co-chancellor, who is accountable to no Parliament, who cannot be voted out of office...
...guards at the Glory, W. Va., state penitentiary, is really doing is helping Johnny Jesus and two other let-out cons get aboard the evening train out of Glory. Johnny is a dreamy lad of 17 who has just served three years for a rape that he did not commit. Lee Cottrill, standing there beside him, is a daft bank robber. Then there...
Vladimir, acquaintances remember, was handsome, courtly, occasionally terribly amusing at parties. It was not for Nabokov, though, to commit the hilarious gaffes of his comic creation, the emigre Professor Timofey Pnin. Years of having to conform with dignity as an outsider had marked his manner. Mrs. Yvor Winters, widow of the critic, recalls that Nabokov would never kiss a woman's hand, as many other refugees did. "If I were in Russia," he once confided to her, "I would kiss your hand...
Save Me, Save Me. The Goodrich defense has been doubly effective because U.S. securities laws commit Northwest executives to frustrating silence until their tender offer expires in June. Heineman has been able to speak out only to the extent of blaming his firm's first-quarter loss largely on a strike at its Lone Star Steel Co. and the severe weather, which hampered its rail operations. He has also talked in general terms about struggles for corporate control. "There are a lot of frightened, stodgy companies with frightened, stodgy managements," he says. "Conservative businessmen are running to the Government...