Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bolles' assassination. Said a Department of Justice expert on organized crime: "The gangsters are smart enough to know that getting rid of a reporter only causes more trouble than the reporter could stir up in the first place." Arizona authorities finger home-grown mobsters as more likely to commit such an act. They suggest that, despite his apparent loss of interest, Bolles may have been close to linking some big names to illegal schemes. Phoenix Police Lieutenant Jack Bentley told TIME Correspondent William F. Marmon Jr.: "Bolles had reams of stuff in his files that was very damaging...
...Washington press conference, Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson, who headed the Administration's task force on questionable corporate payments abroad, objected that Proxmire's bill was unworkable. Said he: "If you make it illegal to commit acts that occur in another country, you create problems of investigation and enforcement." The Administration's proposal, by contrast, seeks to apply penalties only where they could be made to stick. In effect, the bill consists of two catches that exemplify the old cliche, "Damned if you do and damned...
...that a rap cannot be pinned on him, but his former friend pursues him for three decades. Finally the detective maneuvers his ancient adversary into a situation where he must inevitably take the fall for one of the few crimes-oh irony of ironies-he did not commit...
...fact that little more than half of the corps voted for a flexible system of punishments shows how strongly the status quo is defended by many cadets, and their elders, despite the difficulties. "An officer who sees a fellow officer commit an atrocity has an obligation to report him, even if he's a friend," says Ulmer. "If you won't do that, you have no business at West Point." Over the decades, the code has helped to make West Point what George Patton Jr. called a "holy place," an institution that Maxwell Taylor describes as "something like...
...report an increase in the proportion of their worshipers who receive weekly Communion-from about one-fifth of them a decade ago to more than half today. One possible reason: the newer Catholic teaching suggests that it is hard-not easy-for a reasonably religious person to commit mortal sins, the principal impediment that would keep someone from Communion...