Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of their hardships and deprivations, Gusinde reports, the Pygmies are a smiling, happy people. They commit no crimes and they wage no wars, while the better-fed people of the lush lowlands are both dour and bloodthirsty...
Sagoya and his bullyboys were by no means the only Japanese who were disturbed by Hatoyama's new-found willingness to agree to an interim peace settlement that would not commit Russia to return to Japan the southern Kuril islands of Etorofu and Kunashiri. Earlier, the powerful businessmen who finance Hatoyama's Liberal-Democratic Party demanded that the Premier abandon the Moscow trip unless the Russians could be persuaded to give advance assurances that possession of Etorofu and Kunashiri would "continue to be the subject of negotiations" even after a peace settlement. To pacify the businessmen, the Hatoyama...
There are two fundamental church documents on kissing, answered the journal's theological advisers: one by the Council of Vienne (1311-12), one by Pope Alexander VII, who reigned from 1655 to 1667. Both agree that if two unwed people kiss with intent to fornicate, they commit mortal sin, whether or not fornication follows. But if there is no such intention, if the kiss is only "a carnal delight limited to the act of kissing . . . if further consequences are neither indulged in nor thought of, the sin is only a venial...
...Book. In Trapani, Sicily, after he tried to commit suicide and missed, Giuseppe Cavallo was jailed, told it is illegal to shoot oneself without a firearms permit...
...have to make the tanks and heavy guns have all the peacetime business they can use, and firms like Krupp want no part of the risk and none of the stigma of becoming munitions makers again. Furthermore, weapons are in a transitional stage, and Germans do not want to commit themselves to large-scale production until the weapons of the future have taken clear shape...