Word: commited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speculated that the Chinese might try to follow through with a series of such one-punch attacks. No one in Korea doubted that the Chinese would try again. But the basic situation-Chinese hurling masses of manpower against relentless U.N. firepower-would not change, unless the Reds decide to commit their air force...
Trust Mark Twain. Atkinson writes about the theater with a level eye and uncommon candor: "Basically, the Broadway theater is not an art, but an unsuccessful form of high-pressure huckstering ... It is not developing playwrights, actors or directors. It is doing the best it can to commit suicide." And on Broadway first-nighters: "They bring nothing into the theater except shallow, distracted minds and tired emotions . . . they have nothing to give. They are the unburied dead, brushed, combed, richly dressed, and expensively embalmed...
Between terms, when Danny seemed to be away from the habit, he got married. Before the first baby was a year old, Danny was shot up again. When his wife left him he tried to commit suicide. And so back to Lexington...
...Some may say to avoid spread of the conflict into an all-out war with China. Others, to avoid Soviet intervention. Neither explanation seems valid, for China is already engaging with the maximum power it can commit, and the Soviet will not necessarily mesh its actions with our moves...
...with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit...