Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more newspapers and more people give the President solid support, the shorter and less dangerously complicated the war will be. I believe that the United States was right about Viet Nam in 1954, right when President Kennedy increased our involvement, right when President Johnson did likewise, and right to commit, in the President's words, 'whatever it takes' to deny the Communists a military triumph there...
...they did not like what they saw. "Kill them! Shoot them! Commie!" cried the gang. They surged forward, knocking some of the demonstrators to the ground and slugging and kicking them until the cops finally arrived to rescue them. Said a veteran police captain: "Anyone foolish enough to commit such an unpatriotic gesture in South Boston can only expect what these people got." Later, in court to face charges stemming from an earlier sit-in at the Boston Army Base, the protesters were found guilty of loitering. Nine of them began serving jail sentences rather than pay $20 fines...
...smile?" asked a reporter. "I am smiling," snapped a puffy-faced President Sukarno at the Pakistan Ambassador's reception. "I'm smiling at the many foreign correspondents abroad. Abroad they say I have been ousted. They say I am a sick man. They say I nearly committed suicide. But I am not a sick man. I have not been ousted. I will never try to commit suicide because I love life. Here I am. I am still President of the Republic. I am still leader of the revolution...
...raced through the city like a plague. Nazi propaganda had long painted Soviet troops as slant-eyed Mongols who butchered women and children on sight, raped nuns and burned clergymen to death with flamethrowers. As a result, doctors were besieged by patients seeking information about the quickest way to commit suicide, and poison was in great demand...
...during graduate school, Dunn finally decided to commit himself to medieval language and literature; he received Harvard degrees in that field. He won a post-graduate Dexter travelling fellowship and recalls that "the money was supposed to be for a Harvard man visiting the cathedral towns of England." He persuaded the fellowship officials to let him try something else, arguing that "it wasn't a very good time to be seeing the cathedral towns of England and I had seen them all anyway." He went instead to Cape Breton to study the Scot-Gaelic settlements there, and took his bride...