Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening ... it looks like a person coming home from the office . . . wear Moose, Elks or K.C. ring . . . Pose as blind with dog and dark glasses while prowling . . . use white skins of eggs over eyeballs . . . Good clothes to be inconspicuous . . . live in best hotels ... It is easy to commit a crime, as the police never prevent ... Do not lose the sense of danger while prowling ... on the day a criminal decides he is smarter than the police, he moves that much closer ... to capture...
...Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to commit Agriculture to a permanent policy of high price pegs. The Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed...
...together at the same time?" Two years later, in answer to a War Department call, he volunteered to learn to fly at the Wright Brothers' field in Dayton. Said his disapproving commanding officer: "Young man, I know of no better way for a person to commit suicide!" In that year, 1911, Hap Arnold became one of the first two qualified airplane pilots in the U.S. Army...
...Senate, the answer to one question was supposed to be down in black and white, in the Atlantic Pact. But there was violent disagreement on what the fancy script meant. The question was: "Does the treaty commit us to arm and aid Europe's armies?" (An old question in a new context). Senator Taft, respected for his brains, answered, "Yes." Senator Dulles, respected for his brains, answered, "No." The rest of the Senators, some respected, some not, weren't agreed either, but they voted for the Pact. An arms bill may pass the Senate, but what the original treaty meant...
Last week, as the going got rough in Washington, De Lattre was calm. Said his wife: "He has got very patient since he has gone to Fontainebleau-as patient as when he was in prison." Patiently, the man on a tightrope was waiting for America to commit an act of faith...