Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Urbanization, for example, generally brings both longer life and fewer births; in all three respects modern Chile is about where England was a century ago. Literate people commit suicide oftener than illiterates...
Each Dawn I Die (Warner Bros.-First National) winks at the Hays Code, which frowns on teaching cinemaddicts how to commit crimes, by illustrating a practically foolproof way to commit one. When Frank Ross (James Cagney), a fresh reporter, presses too close to the racketeers running his home town, the boys slug him, douse him with whiskey, prop him behind the steering wheel of a car and head it toward a crowded intersection. The result starts Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square...
...proved, no nation can be neutral if its Administration chooses to take sides, or if its people take sides. In the present pre-war world there are few conflicts in which the U. S. people are neutral at heart. Their special neutrality is a basic disinclination to commit mass murder and be its victim. But there can be no guarantee of neutrality in any words, whether of mandatory legislation or of traditional international law. Real neutrality exists in the hearts of men-and if men take sides they may fight...
Last week the time for war with Russia had not yet come. With a good part of the Japanese war machine mired deep in China, the Kwantung Army, unless it wanted to commit harakiri, would be unwise to call a showdown with the Soviet Union. That this summer's clash was just another in the long series of Manchukuoan frontier incidents in which the Kwantung Army works off steam was indicated by a Japanese Army spokesman. He said that Japan had "no intention of expanding the border clashes into a real war so long as the Russians refrain from...
...apologize for entering the Kalgan war zone without a military pass and shall never knowingly commit the same error in the future in any Japanese war zone in China. Any information I may have got since May 25 will never be transmitted to the Chinese side." Despite the intervention in Tokyo of British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie, Lieut. Colonel Spear was still in prison...