Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gould, meanwhile, remains an active member of the Senate. His lawyers maintain that, even if he did commit bribery in Canada in 1912, he ought not to be ousted from the U. S. Senate since he was legally elected in 1926. In any case, it was the New Brunswick Premiers, not Mr. Gould, who had violated political trust...
...three men at Charlestown, Mass., then took a train for Sing Sing. It was late when he arrived. The condemned men lay awake in their uncurtained cells in the harshly lighted, white-painted death-house. A Negro was singing a song. That afternoon the black man had tried to commit suicide with a rope made of four towels knotted together. They took the towels away from him, draped a fresh one over his shoulders. As they led him to the death chamber a voice said, "If I could get hold of that towel around your neck, buddy...
...Will you," he whispered in a sinister manner, "commit a Crime...
...Subscriber to TIME. I am a high school teacher and often require my pupils to commit some piece of National or Foreign News to bring to the history class...
Diligent, the priest wrote out a petition to the Emperor, setting forth the sins of his countrymen, especially the politicians. Serene, he donned the death robe of one about to commit harakiri, and purchased a disemboweling knife. Shrewd, he covered the white death robe with a dark overgarment and lay in wait for Prince Regent Hirohito near the Regent's Palace...