Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inclined against granting additional foreign economic aid; some liberal Democrats held that Eisenhower had fooled the people during the 1956 campaign and that he should now "face facts." Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield of Montana wondered whether a "serious constitutional question" was involved, to wit, whether the Congress should commit itself in advance to "a presidential declaration of war." Considering these doubts, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington hoped that the Congress would authorize "whatever is necessary for the President to have in order to aid him in the handling of the current Communist aggression, not only...
...Cold-shouldered Israeli attempts to commit the U.S., in advance of Tel Aviv's full compliance with U.N. resolutions, to support her demands that in any Mideast settlement Israel be guaranteed free passage through the Suez, protection from further Egyptian commando raids, etc. The State Department, determined that Israel not be rewarded for her attack on Egypt, told the Israeli Foreign Ministry in effect: first things first, i.e., no U.S. commitments until Israel withdraws behind the 1949 armistice lines. On the other side of the ledger, the U.S. Treasury gave no sign of heeding fervent Egyptian requests that...
...situation that had to be remedied, agreed the Communist magazines Kommunist and Party Life, was the tendency of many professors to duck the searching political questions thrown at them by their students. No one, however, dared to point out that professors could scarcely be expected to commit themselves at a time when even the Central Committee of the Communist Party flagrantly evaded public comment on anything more controversial than steel quotas...
...ground-to-electronic-brain orders, the errant missile veered sharply out of flight pattern and shot westward. When the missile's ground-locked pilots realized it was out of control, they pushed the button that was supposed to blow it up in midair. But the Snark refused to commit suicide. When last seen by radar, it was slipping over the South American horizon. Happily, it carried no warhead...
...hospital system. Author of The Show of Violence and The Circle of Guilt, he has a knack of appearing in such cases. Dr. Wertham listed 19 telltale signs of schizophrenia, found all of them in Chapin. One was lack of insight. "When I asked him what made him commit the murders, he answered: 'It's the way I am, I guess.' " Another item: "I had the feeling in talking to Chapin that I was talking to him through a glass wall. He had no emotion whatsoever...