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Word: commitments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself is plagued with doubts: the Pentagon does not want to get bogged down upon the Asian mainland; the State Department is unwilling to commit U.S. prestige too deeply in South Viet Nam if the cause is already lost. Under the terms of the Geneva truce, all-Viet Nam elections are scheduled to be held in 1956, with the winner to take the entire country. As of today, that winner would be Ho Chi Minh. The Communist North, organized by tyranny, would easily out vote a South disrupted by chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...Natural Science and Natural Law." Professor Fowler Harper, too, in his course on "Family Law," considers not only such things as divorce law, but also the psychological and personality conflicts that lead to divorce. As he says, "We want to go behind the law to find what makes people commit adultery...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman and John G. Wofford, S | Title: Harvard, Yale Law: Academic Parallel | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

...police (George Raft) discover that the girl did not commit suicide-she was murdered. Furthermore, she was pregnant. Things look bad for the producer. However, there is still the couple upstairs to be considered (Ginger Rogers and Reginald Gardiner) and the boy friend down in the Village (Skip Homeier). Producer Johnson manages very cleverly to keep all these oranges in the air until the next-to-last scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Ounce of Prevention. In Manila, P.I., arrested on 24 assorted charges of robbery, Amado Manlapaz complained to Judge Bienvenido Tan: "If I had been arrested earlier, I never would have had the chance to commit so many crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...never be an effective agency for keeping the peace unless the veto is completely abolished. Only then could instant collective action against an aggressor be taken on a world-wide scale. In theory, this is true. But today, at least, there simply is no great power which would commit its forces to action anywhere in the world if such action clashed directly with its national interests. In this country, for instance, a revision of the UN Charter would need Senate approval like any other treaty. And a body which almost passed the Bricker Amendment would never conceivably ratify an agreement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revising the UN Charter | 10/21/1954 | See Source »

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