Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both Wag-gonner and Howe have raised a troubling issue by making a counterallega-tion against the police. They claim they did nothing wrong and were subjected to attempted entrapment-the legal principle that can bar a conviction if law-enforcement officials have incited or enticed an individual to commit a crime...
...debate, John Kenneth Galbraith, professor Emeritus, said he believes that women and young people have made permanent inroads in the party structure because of a series of campaign reforms. The primary system in particular, he said, has done away with many professional politicians, because the system encourages candidates to commit themselves early, something they don't like to do. He said he would be surprised if many people at the convention were here for the first time. "There is a very low proportion of professionals here," he said. "There is no better way to open the convention to youths than...
...truth, like, say, describing Tolstoy as a religious nut. By the standards of Knoxville, Tenn., or St. Paul, Minn., New York's streets are filthy and sometimes dangerous-though among the six largest cities, only Los Angeles has a lower murder rate. Some visitors may be tempted to commit a mugging or two when they encounter New York waiters; many waiters, on the other hand, are the best anywhere. The taxis can be gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then they seem to be driven by surly crackpots exploring new frontiers in rudeness and reckless...
Since a renewal of inflation could choke off the worldwide recovery, Ford was eager to get his fellow leaders to commit themselves to a go-slow approach to recovery. That is scarcely a policy that entrances voters. As Treasury Secretary William Simon put it: "Preaching moderate growth is like trying to sell leprosy." But Ford had a powerful ally in West Germany's Schmidt, a former Finance Minister who believes that combatting inflation should be the No. 1 priority among the industrialized democracies. By,contrast, Britain and Italy, which are lagging behind in the recovery, would still like...
...last week and facing a court case of no grandeur. Carswell, 56, a 1970 Nixon nominee to the high bench whom the Senate rejected (51 to 45) after disclosure of his racist statements and mediocre court record, has been charged by a grand jury with "battery" and "attempting to commit an unnatural and lascivious act." According to State Attorney Harry Morrison, Carswell, now a Florida lawyer and bankruptcy referee, struck up a conversation with another man in a Tallahassee shopping center rest room that was under police observation as a homosexual meeting place. The pair, said Morrison, drove...