Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beating put Keeny on heroin more heavily than ever. Soon he was pawning his possessions to buy the stuff. Although he was devoted to his wife Sally and daughter Celia, Keeny could not quit the habit. He decided to commit suicide. Then Los Angeles Mirror Reporter Lou Larkin, tipped off to the story, caught up with 19-year-old Keeny Teran...
...company sells its product by plugging "the dangers of fire and theft. Says Mosler: "There are four times as many crooks as policemen in the U.S., and they commit more than 1,000 burglaries a day. Four out of every ten firms that lose their records in a fire go out of business." Safecrackers keep Mosler's designers on their toes. The cracksmen keep up with the latest technology and quickly find any weak spot in a new design...
Although Knowland did not commit himself, news of the Taft offer buzzed across the long-distance grapevine and irked even some of Taft's close friends. Knowland, 44, ranks 17th on the Republican seniority list. Why, asked the G.O.P. seniors, should Knowland be catapulted into the policy chairmanship over such venerable heads as Colorado's Eugene Millikin, ranked eighth, or Nebraska's Hugh Butler, fifth? There was no doubt that Bob Taft could corral enough votes to get the job if he wanted to fight for it. In the interests of party harmony, however, the odds grew...
During 4½ years as mayor of New York, Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer often seemed to be doing his bullheaded best to commit political suicide. He made an enemy of President Harry Truman by publicly opposing him as a candidate before the 1948 Democratic Convention. He feuded with reporters. He enraged millions of his fellow citizens in the summer of 1950-when the district attorney began unearthing corruption in New York-by staging the biggest police funeral in city history for a captain who had put a bullet through his head while under investigation...
...bought his stubby, broad-beamed ketch a year before. Originally named the "Soubrette" (meaning "handmaiden"), it was rechristened by Davis the "Miru," who according to a Polynessian legend is the daughter of the Sun God. She had eight brothers, all of whom were commanded by the sun God to commit incest with her; other than her mother, Miru unfortunately was the only woman on the earth at the time. Miru produced the ancestors of the Polynessian race...