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Word: commited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some advisory decisions that may unalterably commit the student body to be a certain course of action, the Council may not see fit to conduct an opinion poll. In such cases the students must have direct control over their representatives. The referendum provision should be reinstituted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Coup | 11/3/1950 | See Source »

...usual, canny Getulio was in no hurry to commit himself. From Rio Grande do Sul, the old man issued his first post-election statement. Said Getulio: "I come to power with a heart clean of hate and resentment ... I bow before a triumph which has been less mine than that of the Brazilian people." Aside from talking vaguely about forming a coalition or perhaps a British-style labor government, that was about all he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: After the Landslide | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...amused at your footnote on Mrs. Agnes Denmanson of Seattle who in 1933 was quoted as saying "Anyone who drinks beer would commit murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...Denmanson correspondence to the Star followed, and brought in hundreds of letters from irate beer drinkers . . . The general pattern had the mythical subscriber writing she had seen a man enter a bar and stagger out after one beer. Each letter ended "Anyone who drinks beer would commit murder. Mr. Denmanson agrees with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...announce a comprehensive program at the beginning of the College Year. The result of this annual mistake was that group after beleaguered group got bogged down with more work than it could possibly handle. To avoid the inefficiency which comes from spreading its efforts too thinly, the Council should commit itself at once to a specific set of carefully selected projects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Program for the Council | 10/3/1950 | See Source »

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