Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood in the Belgian salient. Back of it the bombers had created a bridgeless arc extending from Cologne to the Moselle River. The.German railheads were pushed steadily back by continued attack. But the bridges over the Rhine were left standing. "Ike" Eisenhower apparently still believed that the Germans would commit all they had to a battle west of the Rhine (TIME...
...approaches to the Western Hemisphere and the aviation bases at Goose Bay in Labrador, Gander on the East Coast, the U.S.-leased airport at Stephenville. These were reasons enough for Britain to keep her hand in Newfoundland affairs; why, as Newfoundland's trustee, she refused to commit herself on postwar air rights in Newfoundland territory at the Chicago air conference...
...Criminals. "No one certainly thinks of disarming justice in its relations to those who have exploited the war situation in order to commit real and proved crimes against the common law, and for whom supposed military necessity could at most have offered a pretext, but never a justification...
...Rundstedt had still more hidden reserves to commit to battle, he might possibly try to cut in behind the First and destroy the bulk of it, roll up the three other Allied armies to the north, recapture Antwerp and even wheel back into France. These were high stakes indeed, and the Germans' chances seemed correspondingly small...
...quietly shoved into the background and Eivind Berggrav, man of God and man of peace, took to the radio to appeal for order. "The civil population must refrain from any interference," he said. "Civilians who forcibly mix themselves up in the war by sabotage or in any other way, commit the greatest crime against their own countrymen...