Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office with something rolled up in a newspaper [believed to have been Matteotti's bloody clothing] and asked me to find him a place where he could keep the automobile during the night." Filippelli became suspicious. It dawned on him that Gangster Dumini had used his car to commit a political murder. Filippelli was shocked and panicky. He did not yet know who the victim...
...Weak to Stand. "Why more of these unfortunate people do not give up [and commit] suicide, I do not know. . . . Instead, they struggle inland with a frantic desperation of which one is forcibly reminded by seeing the deep ulcers on the buttocks of people too weak to walk who have struggled across the country in a sitting posture...
...action at Belvedere, for which the 100th was officially cited, the divisional commander had to commit the battalion sooner than expected, to outflank a tough German position. With little artillery support the Nisei cut behind the position of some 500 Germans, knocked it to pieces, killed, wounded and captured 271 Germans...
...Russians knew what they wanted and stood firmly for it. They won respect because their reluctance to yield was so obviously motivated by their anxiety not to commit Russia to anything the Soviet Union might not be able to live up to. And the Russians made concessions, voluntarily upping their subscription to the Bank from $900 million to $1.2 billion, after the conference had reluctantly agreed to the lower figure...
...narrative high point of Welles's book is the long chapter describing his 1940 mission to Europe which was undertaken in the fragile hope that the "phony" war might somehow be halted before the real shooting began. Welles had no authority to commit the U.S. to war, but he managed discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler...