Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia shrewdly did not entirely commit itself. The way was left open for official recognition, semiofficial sponsorship, or even repudiation of the German Committee. Reactions in Washington and London undoubtedly would guide Russia's eventual attitude...
...liberty to dispute these aspersions with concrete facts. But reports came that the widely discounted Bermuda conference may have been more than a junketing seminar after all. Readying for release, perhaps this week, was a joint U.S.-British announcement of plans agreed on. The Intergovernmental Refugee Commit tee, established in 1938 as an unpaid advisory body, was to be buttressed with funds and a paid chairman and secretary, given the job of finding land, housing, shipping, food, medicines and other supplies needed to resettle some of the 20,000 refugees in Spain, the 100,000 in the Balkans. Some...
...Since alcoholics, including many dangerous characters likely to commit "explosive" acts, often comprise one-fifth of the inhabitants of a jail or penitentiary, they should receive treatment as well as jailing...
...capable of declaring his love for his young fellow teacher Louise Martin (Maureen O'Hara) and of standing openly with his friends against the Nazi conquerors. But the betrayal and killing of people he loves goads Lory into taking arms against the sea of troubles. He commits a blind, almost reflex act of near murder, which is forestalled only by the suicide of his intended victim. On trial for the murder he did not commit, the morally outraged schoolmaster speaks out at length against the Nazis, and further proceeds in open court to reveal his love for Louise Martin...
...mask in his left hand with four fingers on top, look his adversary straight in the eye, bring the blade of his weapon up before his right eye, then sweep it down and to the right. The blade, says Nadi, must whistle through the air, must under no circumstances commit the "frightful discord" of striking the floor...