Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oddly disparate sentences were handed down by the same judge, acting under an equally odd state law based on an English statute of 1533 that made homosexuality a capital offense. As adopted in 1837, the euphemistic North Carolina law reads: "Any person who shall commit the abominable and detestable crime against nature, not to be mentioned among Christians, with either mankind or beast, shall be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall suffer death without the benefit of clergy." As it stands today, the law omits death and Christians, but prescribes a whopping sentence of up to 60 years...
...Wilson stood firm on British insistence that an MLF must be broader than the U.S. proposal for a fleet of 25 ships armed with nuclear missiles and manned by crews of mixed nationality. He suggested that Britain might commit its entire nuclear deterrent, including V-bombers and Polaris submarines, now abuilding, to such a force. Johnson and his advisers received this suggestion with some interest...
...right. As they passed midcourt, the two men on the outside converged toward Austin, and began to work legerdemain with their passing. Even if two or three Crimson players had scrambled into the backcourt to defend, the only way of stopping the blits was to commit a foul or pray that a B.C. player would blow his shot...
...containing two secret documents, was found in the Russians' car near by, along with a copying machine, a radio and a cigarette case, each concealing a camera, and an electronic signaling device. In Newark last week a Federal Court jury found Butenko and Ivanov guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage, and Butenko alone of failing to register as an agent for a foreign government. Sentence has not yet been passed, but both men could get the death penalty...
...York City may soon be able to deter potential delinquents before they commit their first crimes, aided by a table developed by Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Emeritus, and his wife, Mrs. Eleanor Glueck...