Word: commited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the new Assembly seemed doomed to linger between a balk and a breakdown. At international tables, France's place would not be the "empty chair" of which Sir Winston Churchill once warned. But it was likely to be a chair occupied by a diminished man, hesitant to commit his nation to new exertions, uncertainly representing a negative mandate...
From it emerges the picture of a "blueeyed giant," ruthless in his personal relations-he was, for instance, coldly unmoved by the attempted suicide of a rejected mistress. Sorge was clever, resourceful and convinced that his dedication to world Communism gave him the right to commit any crime...
...final heroes climaxed a game in which the lead switched nine times, but the play was as inconsistent as it was exciting. The varsity threw the ball away no fewer than 30 times and in the first 20 minutes managed to commit 15 personal fouls...
...pent-up hostility shows up in far stranger places, e.g., the rock-'n'-roll sects of the Harlem storefront churches where his late father used to preach. Says Baldwin: "Religion operates here as a complete and exquisite fantasy revenge: white people own the earth and commit all manner of abomination and injustice on it; the bad will be punished and the good rewarded, for God is not sleeping, the judgment is not far off ... Bitterness is here neither dead nor sleeping . . . and this is not, as Cabin in the Sky would have us believe, merely a childlike emotional...
...Hughes studiously declined to commit the Administration to tax cuts in 1956. When asked if he had not in effect foreshadowed them by his budget predictions, Hughes replied: "I don't think you can put those words in my mouth, sir. I wish you could...