Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operation of the libel laws is even more serious. Judges and juries are increasingly inclined to regard any criticism as defamation and to award damages out of all relation to any harm done. The trouble here is not that newspapers do commit libels and do pay heavy damages...
What does the College do to students who commit these offenses, or the less serious misdemeanors? For Radcliffe girls, the favorite penalty for minor transgressions is restriction to the dormitory on Saturday night. For Harvards, it is removal of the bursar's card, the student's official proof that he is a member of the University. Its deprivation is an inconvenience -- without it cashing checks is difficult and borrowing library books impossible. Eventually the student must go and beg to have the card returned. The card is usually given back without undue bitterness, but the formalities require...
...Troop has been fighting for four months, pushed from behind by a hearty, pistol-packing captain whose notion of boldness is to commit his men without sufficient support. So far, casualties have been light. But good luck has been strained to the breaking point. So have the men of A Troop's second platoon...
...split AEC and the nation's atomic scientists. Should the U.S. start a crash program to develop a hydrogen bomb? Strauss pleaded for it, but Lilienthal and the other three commissioners argued that the U.S. had a sufficient atomic superiority. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of a general advisory commit tee of scientists to AEC, maintained that the doubtful project would only divert personnel from the proven A-bomb program. To Strauss's side, however, came AEC Physicist Edward Teller, whose studies indicated that the H-bomb was scientifically feasible, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon, chairman...
...engagement, but moves in with his brother and former financee, Valeric. Shortly afterwards he goes to work for an immense corporation called S.B.H., where he learns that his patron, the S.B.H. Chairman Lormier, is a grotesquely arrogant swindler trying perpetually to outwit the Managing Director Hermelin. Loyalty and coincidence commit him to Lormier's side...