Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey's right-wing Republicans have been trying to commit fratricide against Clifford Case, the G.O.P. senatorial candidate, ever since Case denounced Joe McCarthy (TIME, July 19). Soon after that, 10,000 circulars titled "The Case Against Case" went out across the state. The circulars attacked the ex-Congressman as the candidate of the C.I.O. and the A.D.A. and an enemy of the late Bob Taft. The tide got so strong that last week Chief Republican Dwight Eisenhower came to Case...
...wife escaped to West Berlin and broadcast appeals to friends in East Germany for help. Reports reached the West that he had tried to commit suicide in his cell. Last week, 19 months after his arrest, the East German news agency, A.D.N., announced that Dr. Karl Hamann had been sentenced to ten years' hard labor in a Communist prison. The charges: having "systematically sabotaged the supply of foodstuff for the population...
...last week that the proposal for the U.S. to quit the United Nations if Red China becomes a member "strikes a note of defeatism which I think is entirely unjustified." Dulles' firm view: Red China will not be admitted; therefore, there is no need for the U.S. to commit itself, even contingently, to a policy of withdrawal...
Again and again, British leaders have had to assure their people that Britain keeps its freedom of decision, that the U.S. cannot commit Britain to war. Again and again, British writers have pointed out that there is no formal bilateral alliance between Britain and the U.S. that would bind Britain to stand at the U.S.'s side in combat. Now it is clear that these statements meant exactly what they said and are not merely fine words to comfort the timid...
While 1,000 reunioners and other interested spectators watched, the Elis managed to commit only four errors, while the hapless varsity made five...