Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Encouraging Blacks to "participate in all elections," Lowry said that Blacks should "think independently," and not commit themselves to a specific party...
...children predicted that imminent changes in Russia would lead to the spread of totalitarian, atheist, antihuman regimes throughout the world. To stave off this spread, the children warned, the people of the world must undergo an inner conversion and commit themselves to the selfless act of praying for others...
...small Connecticut town, mixing up with hookers and private eyes? Don't ask them. Don't ask anyone who has seen the result of their collaboration, Everybody Wins. At times it promises to be a study in miscarried justice -- an innocent youth imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. At other times it seems to be about all-encompassing municipal corruption. There are moments between the detective (Nick Nolte) and the flaky strumpet (Debra Winger) when it edges toward, of all things, screwball comedy. But it never settles for long on any style or viewpoint, and it arrives...
...very proud that we had only 15 turnovers against such a tough defense," Delaney Smith said. "I think we proved to ourselves that we can play against a pressure defense and not commit turnovers...
...recognize that the Soviet threat has been greatly exaggerated is not to commit the sin of "moral equivalence"; Western self-criticism about the phobias of the cold war does not imply a neutral judgment about the Soviet system. Quite the contrary: it is precisely because that system is such an abomination against basic human aspirations, against human nature itself, that much of what the West called "Soviet power" was actually Soviet weakness, and the instruments of that power could never have been all they were cracked...