Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uneducated youths with mother fixations are most liable. Indifferent treatment will aggravate latent organic weaknesses, may drive them to commit crimes as a means of escape...
...that Defense Attorney Edward V. Broderick would make some plea of insanity involving homosexuality. Again & again he asked discomfited would-be jurors: "Would you be prejudiced, one way or another, against psychiatric or psychological testimony?" The defense would apparently try to prove: 1) that Lonergan was too unstable to commit premeditated murder; or 2) temporary insanity...
From Munich to Moscow. Once the Nazi pressure is removed from the center, energy will radiate from the East and the West-from Moscow and from Washington. Czechoslovakia's response may commit the Continent...
Puzzling feature: if the Japs knew Mitscher's force was coming, why did they lose 87 planes on the ground? Possible explanation: when Japs become confused, or when something goes wrong with their plans, everything goes haywire. Sometimes in their stress they commit suicide because they can think of nothing else...
...Willkie, Harold Stassen, John Bricker, Thomas Dewey, Douglas MacArthur, Robert Taft-had caught hold of the people's imagination. This might be remedied in June, by the manner of the nomination, and of the nominee. But meanwhile the doubts were there, and the people unsure and unwilling to commit themselves...