Word: commited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poor Joan-not even the censor can save her. But he can make it legal. Jeff, it suddenly turns out. was only paying a debt of honor when he drove the other widow to her death-and besides, the lady didn't commit suicide after all. She was mur dered by one of Jeff's jealous girl friends. "The past," sighs Joan, as she clings to him, "is buried under a lot of dead years...
Employee: If I knew he was going to commit sabotage? Certainly I would tell them, because he would only be hurting himself...
Sensitive to this, and not yet feeling any searing breath on his neck, Stevenson and his advisers looked for a compromise which would advance the probability that he would run and yet not definitely commit him. They found...
...opposite extreme were Croker and Murphy. At a Fourth of July celebration, a reporter noted that Murphy did not join in the singing of The Star-Spangled Banner. The newsman turned to a Tammany official and asked why. "Perhaps," came the reply, "he didn't want to commit himself." Croker, when asked to comment on free silver, the hottest political question of the day, merely growled: "I'm in favor of all kinds of money-the more the better...
...holds that its pledge to uphold the U.N. Charter is sufficient guarantee that the West will not commit aggression to liberate the satellites...