Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond this, he will not commit himself, as the fall tournament amounted only to a quick trial, from which he derived no permanent rankings. Inexperience among his players is the chief problem before him, and because of this he predicts a "checkered but improving season. Quite a few of the boys show promise, but everyone will need a great deal of practice before steadying down, and for that reason it will probably be very much of an up and down year," he sums...
...contemplating the gaping hole in the argyle sock, where he was about to commit his bare foot, when his reveries were interrupted by a stealthy knock at the door. "It's open," he purred, in the renowned mellow 100 proof tone, as a mufflered figure sidled in, peering in both directions over the upturned label of a secondhand Brooks Brothers overcoat...
...Kusunose, 58, was about to be tried by the Allies. On New Britain, in 1942, he had authorized the bayoneting of 140 Australian prisoners. But the Colonel, according to his peculiar code, was a man of honor; for him there was only one possible course: suicide. He could not commit hara-kiri because his samurai saber had been confiscated by the enemy. Death by drowning or jumping in front of a train would be improper. He decided to end his life by starvation and exposure (the weather was sub-zero...
...guessing; a neat variation on the secret ballot is to cast a vote "manifestly and openly" within clear sight of everyone at the polls. The P.P.R. (Communists) had formed its zealous members into trojki (trios) who had covered the country "inducing" voters to sign a pledge stating: "I commit myself to go to the elections and give my vote to the list of the [Government] bloc parties. I am a real democrat and I am seeking a real democratic Poland. I will vote openly...
...Oklahoma Statutes of 1942, Sect. 1931, which says: "Every person who breaks and enters any building or any part of a building, room, booth, tent, railroad car, automobile, truck, trailer, vessel, or other structure or erection in which any property is kept, with intent to steal therein or to commit any felony, is guilty of burglary in the second degree...