Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franchise Sagan: "I do not follow that kind of mentality. I cannot understand how it is to be young, in good health, to have talent and money, to be attractive-if with these five blessings you are unhappy, then what do you want? The only thing left is to commit suicide...
Since 1951, for example, the U.S. has negotiated more than 40 status-of-forces agreements granting friendly nations primary legal jurisdiction over American servicemen overseas who commit off-duty, off-base violations of law. The host nations guarantee each G.I. the basic rights of U.S. justice (e.g., a fair trial), but not the U.S. forms for securing those rights (e.g.., trial by jury). The status-of-forces agreements cover some 14,000 cases a year without bruising the U.S. sense of justice. They received dramatic confirmation last year in the case of Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard...
...fact remained that for weeks the terrorists have not been able to commit a single act of violence. Their entire activity has been reduced to the elementary one of trying to stay alive...
...years. For this privilege, he must give up all use of narcotics unless prescribed for him (or his patients) by a licensed physician. The hope of reinstatement proves a tremendous incentive, but failure to kick the habit is equally strong medicine. With few exceptions, those who lose the battle commit suicide...
...ranging Government antirecession measures. Last week he asked Congress to authorize immediate expenditure of half the funds requested in his 1959 budget for civilian agency supplies and equipment, e.g., desks, paper clips. Promptly okayed by the House Appropriations Committee, the measure will enable the Administration to pay out or commit some $840 million that otherwise would not be touchable until after midyear...