Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under this influence, Joe took the big step that was to commit him finally to farming. Beginning to make good money from his Durocs, he decided he could do even better with a modern, sanitary farrowing barn. When his father resisted the idea, Joe and Donald came to a resentful impasse before Thelma intervened with a compromise. Donald ended up contributing $400 toward the new hog barn, with Joe paying another...
Every human being is to some extent a security risk. No one is perfect; no one is immune to being deceived or blackmailed or tortured into giving information; no one is certain never to commit a slightly careless act in handling secret material. At the same time there are urgent jobs to be done. If we trust no one with secrets, then there will be no secrets-for secrets are invented in the brains of fallible human beings. If we disqualify every competent but slightly "imperfect" scientist from working for the government, then we shall surely fail to survive...
...size of half a tennis ball); the larger the infarct, the more strain is put on the heart. It also depends on how efficiently the heart develops collateral circulation to feed and repair the damaged area. Even if convalescence is rapid and without complications, no doctor can commit himself on what "complete" recovery would be in terms of the responsibilities and pressures of the presidency. Said Dr. White: "I haven't seen any Presidents with coronary thrombosis...
...could an old hand like Ehrenburg, who got a remarkable fan letter on the occasion of an earlier book ("I have enjoyed your novel very much.-J Stalin."), commit such a mistake? Well since Fan Stalin died, the word had got around somehow that it was all right to have novels with people in them again-just like Tolstoy. The New Neanderthalers in The Thaw-bureaucrats, engineers, state artists-are not exactly people, but sometimes Author Ehrenburg lets them wonder in a dull-witted way why they are not. Perhaps the Ice Age of Communism might some day thaw. Savchenko...
...last year's top-flight forward wall. It consistently rushed UMass passers and held the losers to a bare 110 yards on the ground. Harvard totaled 510. It is a thinking line, to judge from the care such yeoman performers as Bill Meigs and Orville Tice took not to commit themselves too early in a play...