Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT spins hilariously around Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, who commit grand larceny in their scene-stealing debut as a pair of overprivileged Manhattan teen-agers with a yen for Concert Pianist Peter Sellers...
...offered her a cigar and we had a smoke together. She was always kind of a loner. And the more I got to know her, the more I was fascinated with her. She needs to be protected. She's a very fragile little girl. She doesn't commit easily. I found her absolutely exquisite. As conventional beatniks go, she's different-looking. I had this desire to make her feel secure...
...Augustine Negroes needed a lot of encouragement before they would commit themselves actively. The older generation was reluctant to jeopardize jobs by going to jail, and hesitated to allow the children to miss school to demonstrate. Hosea reached them by appealing to their children. Do the old folks want their children to experience the same deprivations? The old folks had lived their lives--now let the youngsters assert themselves in the world that would soon be theirs. To insure a future of freedom, all Negroes must rise to the cause. With these arguments and his colloquial humor, Hosea elicited adult...
...CRIMINAL SOLICITATION: Unsuccessfully trying to induce someone to commit a crime...
...CRIMINAL TRESPASS: Unlawful entry without provable intent to commit any other crime. The revision would, for example, make possible the conviction of a suspect caught prowling in a house with no stolen property in his possession...