Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steve Joyce scored the Crimson's fourth goal five minutes later. All alone at the right of the cage, Joyce waited for goalie Tauro to commit himself and then shot a slow roller into the far corner, making the score 4 to 1 at halftime. With six minutes gone in the third period, Vreeland scored his second goal, drawing Brown to within two goals, but Berk Johnson countered shortly after to give the Crimson a seemingly comfortable 5 to 2 margin...
...over a slick journalistic trick well played, there was one small worry: Reporter Kellerman was still charged with burglary. Kellerman already had his defense figured out. He contended that before he can be convicted of burglary, the police must prove he had broken into the bar with "intent to commit a crime." Said he: "I had no such intent. My only intent was to get a good story." Nevertheless, at week's end Reporter Kellerman faced trial for third-degree burglary and a maximum term of ten years, if convicted...
...became bored with sheepherding at the age of 17. In time Liandru's forays became as legendary in the Sardinian hills as those of Jesse James in Missouri. Local law officers credited him and his band with more crimes than they could ever have found time to commit, but they could never find him to press the charges. Then, three years ago, Liandru's luck seemed to turn. Time after time the carabinieri barely missed catching him. How that could be, nobody was saying, but one Sunday morning in 1949, the parishioners of Orgosolo got a strong hint...
...ranking official of Protestant Christianity since the 17th century, is, by Fisher's own description, "a constitutional governor." In Britain, he has direct authority only over his own diocese. Although he presides over the Church Assembly and deals with the government on ecclesiastical issues, he cannot of himself commit the church to any major decision...
...also reminded the public what a faithful wife she had been during Rose's trouble with Showgirl Joyce Mathews. "When Billy called me because he was in trouble when the police found Joyce Mathews in his penthouse trying to commit suicide, I rushed to him and protected him." At the time, Rose had told his public: "Now is the time to have a wife." Eleanor now charges that he had "later betrayed me again and again...