Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank MacDermot, a member of the Eire Senate, now in the U.S., wryly admitted: "We claim an overriding right for Irish nationals to commit crimes of violence in British territory that would be punished with the utmost severity at home. The I.R.A. declare that we are at war with Great Britain, and we apparently agree with them to the extent of justifying unofficial Irish acts of war, but it is to be a new and improved sort of war with the violence all on one side...
...story goes that Itagaki wanted to commit hara-kiri after his disgrace, that his aides forcibly dissuaded him. The known fact is more characteristic of Itagaki. He did not spill his bowels. Instead he returned to Tokyo and shortly attained the highest post open to him: War Minister in the cabinet of Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Men in other armies concluded that he was a mere politician, a fixer, a conniver who throve on the favor of better...
...Wednesday morning the resolution had reached New Delhi. The Viceroy's Council met in the long, high-windowed council room, darkened against the glaring sun. What they would do was a foregone conclusion. The British Government of India does not possess the authority to commit Constitutional suicide; at best it could refer the decision to His Majesty's Government at London. This...
...show its stuff. Last week peacock-proud Charlie Sorensen showed newsmen the first B-24-E bomber off Willow Run's half-mile long assembly lines, predicted a ship an hour by late summer. Said he: "[This plant] is an invitation for Hitler to commit suicide...
...official prosecutor" of an antitrust indictment against him) that he stamped out of the room, saying "I refuse to be called un-American ! " But no voice was raised against the bill which these doings were designed to promote. S. 2303, sponsored by Senators Bone (Chairman of the Patents Commit tee), O'Mahoney and La Follette, gives the President power to grab any patent needed for war or national defense, to license it to anyone he cares to for as long as he deems necessary, for payment of a "reasonable royalty fee." One section of S. 2303 looked to nervous...