Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Then, in a rambling response to a suggestion that he might be a "rigid, unbending President," Carter declared: "What Christ taught about most was pride, that one person should never think he was better than anybody else." That should have been sufficient, but Carter continued: "I try not to commit a deliberate sin. I recognize that I'm going to do it anyhow, because I'm human and I'm tempted. And Christ set almost impossible standards for us. Christ said, 'I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust in his heart...
...grandfather spent his time in a castle called San Simeon. For Patricia Hearst, 22, the foreseeable future will be spent in a California prison cell. Convicted last March of armed robbery and of using a firearm to commit a felony, Patty came to U.S. district court in San Francisco last week for sentencing. With her counselor Episcopal Priest Edward John Dumke seated behind her, along with Father Randolph Hearst, owner-publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, and Mother Catherine, the 90-lb. heiress stood tight-lipped as Judge William Orrick Jr. sentenced her to seven years, minus 371 days...
...Harvard law professor urged the House and Senate Judiciary Committees last week to investigate the conduct of the judge who sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage...
...giants of Southern journalism have largely passed from the scene, but the newspapers of the South are probably better than ever. More and more Dixie dailies are starting to cover national news seriously, commit money and staff to investigative reporting and pay their talent well enough to halt its traditional northward migration. Among prominent defectors: Tom Wicker and Clifton Daniel of the New York Times, David Brinkley of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS. Five Southern newspapers best exemplify the new stirring in Southern journalism. They are, in alphabetical order...
Crosby worshiped the sun seriously. He chanted hymns to Ra (though he also read Bible verses and apparently maintained some belief in a conventional Christian afterlife). He had talked Caresse into pledging to commit double suicide with him. They had their union with the sun all worked out. On Oct. 31, 1942, when the earth was to be at its nearest to the sun in several decades, they were going to jump out of an airplane together. Then their bodies were to be cremated, taken for a second airplane ride and scattered over a forest. But Harry talked seductively about...