Search Details

Word: commitment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Robert Walker) with a touch of homicidal mania. Granger, in love with Socialite Ruth Roman, wants to rid himself of a faithless wife who is balking at a divorce; Walker would like nothing better than to see his own father dead. Aglow with enthusiasm, Walker proposes that they both commit murder, obliging each other with a friendly swap of victims so that the crimes can be motive-free models of perfection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 16, 1951 | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Wait! Think it over. Don't commit suicide-things may not be as impossible as you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Public Welfare | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Commit no non-U.S. troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...then some shady-looking characters in veils and spangles would wander into town, but a good cop would spot them quick for what they were, and run them in. As one of New Rochelle's finest explained it delicately last week: "You know, gypsies-always out to commit some larceny by theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Alert in Westchester | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Rufe Webb started and finished for Harvard and gave a capable performance. But Webb could have been arrested for having no visible means of support. As a matter of fact, the Tigers learned early that the junior southpaw was weak on fielding bunts, and forced him to commit two of the errors himself...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Tigers Topple Crimson Nine, 6-2; Elis Seek Revenge Here | 6/20/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | Next