Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reece turned out to be the pivotal holdout. Taft-before-Chicago-Man Reece was having some patronage troubles down home with some Ike-before-Chicago rivals, and he refused to commit himself on a vote as the hearing began...
Middle East. Churchill wants the Commonwealth to commit itself to the wartime defense of Suez, but members could not agree. Nehru and Mohammed Ali, both of whom plan to visit Egyptian Dictator Naguib on their way home from London, thought that, in Nehru's words, "progressive and controlled nationalism in the Middle East must not be thwarted." South Africa, however, worried that Russian land armies might one day storm across the Middle East and sweep through Africa, raising thousands of Mau Mau-style recruits along...
...himself. The word "degrade" has evaporated into limbo, although it still survives in our sister culture in Great Britain. As the law now stands, despite some wonderful writing by judges in the United States Supreme Court over the decades, if any person is asked by a committee--"did you commit embezzlement or sodomy or any other anti-social act thirty years ago, there is no honest constitutional legal excuse for not making answer. The constitutional protection would not apply where the statute of limitation has run against the offense. The witness must be in danger of a prosecution not barred...
...M.I.T. case broke into the headlines on April 22, when William T. Martin, head of the Mathematics department and Isador Amdur, professor of Chemistry, told the Un-American Activities Commit in open session that they had joined the Communist party in 1938 but quit in 1946 and 1944 respectively. Martin named Norman Levinson, associate professor of Mathematics, and Professors Arguimbau and Struik as members of the cell...
...Valle confessed an extraordinary story: deep in debt, he had wanted to commit suicide by blowing up the plane. After first trying to get a dupe to take his place, he decided to kill himself in a way that would look accidental, so that his family could collect $100,000 insurance...