Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limited Commitments. The optimistic men of Lisbon were handicapped by being able to commit only their governments, but not necessarily their parliaments or their people. Once the European Army treaty is negotiated, it can still be rejected by the suspicious Bundestag...
Faure, well knowing that Acheson has no legal power to commit U.S. troops, murmured evasively: "This news is obviously premature." Last week he found a scapegoat for the news story. His Information Minister called in the news agency's director general, Maurice Negre, 51, and suspended him. The government could do so because it pays more than half the agency's bills...
...club represents a turnabout for Harvard and Yale, at least. Only a year ago Yale's Bob Hall reminded this department that there was no such thing as an Ivy League--it was an "Ivy Group." The Blue and the Crimson wanted to avoid any organized pact which would commit them to playing Cornell with any regularity, and in the case of Penn, never. Harvard and Yale weren't being stuffy. They simply did not want to get trounced annually nor recruit a team capable of meeting Dr. Stassen's legions on even ground...
...castle's Chapel of St. George to perform the last rites. The Primate spoke the old words from the Book of Common Prayer: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." From a silver bowl, Elizabeth II took a handful of earth and dropped it on the coffin as it slowly sank to the vault below...
...foot, six inch center, facing Jack Molinas, one of the best players in the league, scored 19 points, although he played little more than half of the game. After replacing starter Dick Lionette midway in the second quarter, he forced Molinas to commit enough personal fouls against him to be yanked from the game by his coach before fouling...