Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another, running for Governor would commit Mike to a possibly losing fight against Democrat William A. Egan, former Speaker of the territorial House and a more effective campaigner...
...Next morning, when the marines planned to move into Beirut proper, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Robert McClintock plunged into conference with handsome, stubborn President Chamoun, and elusive General Fuad Shehab, 56-year-old chief of Lebanon's armed forces. True to form, Shehab, who had steadfastly refused to commit bis forces to an all-out assault against the pro-Nasser rebels, refused to commit himself firmly to cooperation with the Americans. President Chamoun reproached the general for this, and for stationing 23 tanks on the approaches to the city, as if to guard it against the marines. "Where...
...that attempts to draw a useful moral, but it is just too goldurn slow (98 minutes) on the draw. The hero (Gregory Peck) is a ranchman who hunts down and kills three men for the rape and murder of his wife, only to discover that the men did not commit the crime. To make matters worse, the killings have made him a hero to the whole district...
...kill you." In 1955 Dunn was blackjacked. A few days later, an ex-Marine boxer told him that he had been offered $500 by the chief of police to give him a beating. At the trial of the police chief (on a charge of soliciting a person to commit a felony), Brother Richard Kellam handled the defense. The Kellam-backed commonwealth's attorney did not allow Dunn to take the stand, and Kellam-supported Police Justice Eugene Gresham did not permit Dunn's lawyer to address the court. The chief was acquitted...
...forgive a satire magazine for failing to be funny, or original, or mature. Or even forgive the Freudian make-up and the New Haven mailing address. But the greatest sin which satire can commit is being dull. And Monocle is better than sex for insomnia...