Word: commited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO. Washington, while warmly praising Turkish bravery in Korea, refused to commit itself. Last week the Turks tried another tack. Turkey's Ambassador in Washington formally invited the U.S. to join the British-French-Turkish mutual-assistance pact of 1939, which obliges the three nations to "lend all aid and assistance in their power" in case one is attacked...
...Knox), plugs away so tritely and self-consciously at its tear-jerking and spiritual uplift that it appears insincere. Though shot in Technicolor in the red hills of Georgia, the movie generally seems truer to Hollywood, especially when it gives Actress Hayward such lines as: "I had begun to commit the gravest sin a woman can commit against her husband. I had ceased to care how I looked...
...Danger" is Dick Powell's latest addition to his "gat, gal and gutter" series. In this one he plays a small time bookie who has been framed for a payroll robbery he didn't commit. After five years he is pardoned on the evidence of an alcoholic ex-Marine who is interested in a share of the payroll money. The film's action centers around Powell's attempts to clear himself...
...closing of the position for Ackerman clearly resulted from a University decision that they could not commit themselves to an expansion of the field. An average permanent appointment lasts at Harvard for 35 years...
...minor offense, for 15. Posterity was shortly to commit a greater one in typing Robert Burns's career as a rake's progress. An early prohibitionist named Curne gave the legend a head start 150 years ago; in a biography written shortly after Burns's death, he portrayed him as a kind of Paul Bunyan of literary bad boys: a convivial roisterer of unslakable thirst and insatiable lust...