Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vinco Moravec had died at the Stillman infirmary. Bill Bingham said we played the whole game under protest. Chip Gannon lost his memory and thought he was General Grant. Bill Bingham committed suicide. Dick Harlow and Ox DaGrosa fought a duel with pistols in the Hotel Kenmore and shot each other. Dave Egan had a nightmare. He dreamt there was a group of football teams called the Ivy League. Bill Bingham had a nightmare. He dreamt he didn't have enough nerve to commit suicide. President Dardon of Virginia had a nightmare. He dreamt he saw movies of a football...
...spot here. You must realize there is a growing resistance to these programs. I've been out on the hustings and I know. I think we should hear from our committees who are in Europe now. I don't feel that I can commit the House until Mr. Taber and the others return...
...three years Shigero Arimoto had seen seven of his companions commit suicide. He had started to take his own life on three separate occasions, but each time the thought of his seven children stopped him. Last week, lonely and desperate, Private Arimoto came out of hiding and surrendered to the U.S. conquerors of Guam. Thus he learned that the war was over...
Other prognosticators on the national level, such as Pic's previewer, refused to commit themselves on Harlow's eleven, commenting only on backfield strength and the well-known Harlow habit of coming from behind for a strong November finish. Like others, Pic had nothing but praise for the Eli squad, citing an all-letterman backfield and strong line...
Incitement to Suicide? Among other things, they objected to the movie barber: 1) stropping his razor on his necktie in preparation for suicide ("a provocation to commit suicide with professional instruments," said the barbers); 2) absentmindedly tying a restaurant napkin around Li's neck, barber-chair fashion; and above all 3) placing his hands on a lady customer's shoulders (Chinese barbers consider this a grave breach of professional ethics). "We will fight unto the death," declared the barbers, "until the insulting parts of the film are cut." They threatened to smash the film studios, raid theaters showing...