Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly good news for us suicide contemplaters to learn that "people who really want to commit suicide could do it almost as easily . . . by eating a lot of toothpaste . . ." [TIME...
...French and German. The presiding judge, Russian Major General I. T. Nikitchenko, quoted from the 25,000 word indictment: the U.S., France, Britain and Russia "hereby accuse [the defendants] as guilty . . . of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity and of a common plan or conspiracy to commit these crimes...
...married to a Jap national. She has been resettled in Winnipeg with her two children, Takumi, 3, and Atsushi, 6. Sadly she says: "People say things that hurt your feelings. They tell me we don't believe in God. If we did, the Japs couldn't . . . [commit atrocities] to Canadian men." Said she last week: "I don't know what they will do with...
...Doctors generally believe that the barbiturates are a safe way of soothing a patient, if the patient follows orders-since the deadly dose is some 15 times the sleeping dose. They consider most "accidental" barbiturate deaths as suicide, and point out that people who really want to commit suicide could do it almost as easily with too much aspirin or by eating a lot of toothpaste-certain kinds...
Harry Truman, a seasoned politician, could expect such cracks from the opposition. He himself had declared that politics-as-usual were in order again. But a more serious point for President Truman was how much support he could expect from his own party. Southern Democrats stood ready to commit mayhem on the FEPC bill, other Democratic conservatives frowned on the unemployment-compensation measure. Harry Truman had a program; how hard would he fight...