Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Constantine. Friends of former Premier Papandreou gave assurance that Karamanlis' old foes would cooperate with the conservatives in a transitional government that would lead Greece back to parliamentary rule. Andreas Papandreou, old George's fiery son, who is under arrest on a charge of conspiring to commit treason, is now willing, according to his American wife Margaret, to go into exile in return for his release. His departure would certainly help to cool the political climate...
...statment pledges student council support of a presidential peace candidate. "We want to commit ourselves to concrete action," Mary E. Bjorklund, third year divinity student and president of the student council, said last night. She added that the pledge was intentionally non-partisan, and was not in support of any specific candidate...
...with the confident, if imprecise, assertion that as we abandon protection, graduate from gold, and commit ourselves against any narrowly American view of the revolution in management, we shall open the way for great constructive labors in which no man need be our enemy, and in which no one's interests need be forgotten. Because ours is the strength, ours also must be the generosity...
...Americans: You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination...
...Still, no matter how unmindful of Greek public opinion they may be, Greece's military rulers feared the repercussions of a backdown on such an emotional issue as Cyprus. In a reply to Turkey, the Greek leaders offered to discuss measures for cooling the crisis but refused to commit themselves on the crucial issue of troop withdrawals...