Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more genuine understanding of the race issue in the south than in the north. But never a discussion of the meaning of social justice or a serious grappling with the roots of prejudice. As for sexual morality, he offered a re-affirmation of the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." I kept wondering if he felt that adultery was the issue on college campuses. Nothing whatsoever was said about what is happening to human beings in our world and of the moral dilemmas that face every...
...cold blooded in pursuit of his policies. But as a great parliamentarian, an unswerving patriot, and a man of courage, vision and humor, he will be long remembered. For the future, Macmillan intends to devote some of his time to his family's publishing house and hopes to commit at least "a few thoughts" to paper. He can also feel confident that his years in the political vineyards will be royally rewarded, either with an earldom or by being dubbed a Knight of the Garter, or both...
...shook every branch of U.S. space bureaucracy. Detailed information about the moon's surface is desperately needed to guide the design of moon-landing vehicles. "We must have close-up pictures of the moon's surface," said one high space administrator. "We're not going to commit a man to make a flight without this knowledge." Such caution may well force modifications in the rigid time schedule that has been set for putting a man on the moon before...
Bending not at all, Panama replied that the U.S. must commit itself in advance to a revised treaty, and broke off all mediation talks. Before the OAS Council in Washington, Panama's Ambassador Miguel Moreno Jr. formally accused the U.S. of "unprovoked armed attacks." He then demanded that the OAS invoke the 1947 Rio Treaty, which commits all hemisphere nations to come to the aid of a member country threatened by aggression...
...them," say British authorities. Officials of the U.S., Indian, Red Chinese, Russian and Nigerian governments agree that ruthless action is necessary. For these kids, brought from their homelands around the globe for scientific study, are extraordinary beings. Evil-eyed, they can will adults to do their bidding, even to commit murder and suicide. They can charge a dilapidated organ with such high-decibel energy that it becomes a ghastly weapon against their would-be assassins. Anything that one of the six sees, hears or reads is, on the instant, telepathically absorbed by the others. "Do you still want to take...