Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of 47 "liberals," including Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, have urged President Eisenhower not to commit U.S. forces to the defense of Quemoy and the Matsus...
...Dominican monk thundered that mathematics was of the Devil, and that mathematicians should be banished from Christian states, the preacher-general of the order apologized to Galileo by letter: "Unfortunately, I have to answer for all the idiocies that thirty or forty thousand brothers may and do actually commit...
...novice's left hand, and she receives the black veil of a full-fledged sister, vowing poverty, chastity and obedience. These are binding for six years only; at the end of that time, provided that she is at least 21, she may make her perpetual vows, which commit her- unless she is specifically released by the Vatican-for the rest of her life...
...working journalist is usually innately shy about being interviewed himself. When we turn the tables on him, some curious things are likely to happen. The reporter being interviewed may get edgy and commit the sin he hates most; ask to read, i.e., censor, the finished copy. Or he may insist on putting the best part of what he says "off the record." Or, a brilliant questioner himself, he may be struck dumb at being interviewed. By and large, however, most newsmen have the good grace to laugh at such inhibitions when our reporters point out the irony...
...great wars of the twentieth century have come close to destroying altogether Congress' power to commit the country to war, except as a mere formality. The United States was virtually at war, chiefly on Presidential initiative, long before American forces entered either World War on Congressional authorization. The most striking recent instance was, of course, President Truman's decision to send American troops into Korea on the grounds that they were participating in a "police action" to prevent war, not in an act of war itself. No official Congressional authorization was ever given to Truman's actions except for whatever...