Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordon recalls that when he and his colleagues left their offices at night, "we walked in the middle of the street; if somebody was going to commit suicide, we did not want him to land on us." It was not an idle concern. Charles Mattey, then 19 and a commodities clerk, was typing on a billing machine when a body crashed through a skylight and landed in his office. Says he: "It was extremely traumatic." George Fowler, a retired Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. vice president, was a 15-year-old office boy with the old Guaranty Trust Co. when...
Crimson coach Joe Restic said yesterday of Crissy. "He's an outstanding running back and he's a good receiver," and of the duo he added. "We can't commit ourselves to just one of them because then we'll get hurt by the other...
When compared with the harsh punishments meted out to blacks who commit crimes against whites, these responses to white crimes are no more than handslaps. No one, including black leaders, advocates a relaxation of standards for punishing violence--especially mob violence--for any group, but the law must be equitably enforced. Otherwise, there is no deterrent for would-be attackers, who will feel free to stone buses, overturn cars, and participate in attacks on innocent passersby like that on a Harvard student last week...
...reluctantly accepted birth control. Reacting to this, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Casti Conubii (On Chaste Marriage), declaring that "the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children. Those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and intrinsically vicious...
...like "tautologic" sometimes. He had a line about reincarnation and karma, which he ran on his girlfriend Nicole. Quite cold-bloodedly, Gilmore murdered two defenseless men-a motel clerk and a law school student working as a gas station attendant. He also made repeated efforts to persuade Nicole to commit suicide in order to join him in the great beyond...