Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never seen Chambers, but this did not faze him. He had psychoanalyzed Adolf Hitler in absentia, correctly predicting that Hitler would commit suicide. He said: "We have what is known as blind analysis"-analyzing the results of another psychologist's tests...
...most important conclusion was that in prosperous times like the present the federal budget, instead of running $5.6 billion in the red, should be balanced. Admittedly, the U.S. should not commit itself to balancing the budget every year, the subcommittee said, for that would mean "drastic increases of tax rates or drastic reductions of Government expenditures during periods of deflation and unemployment, thereby aggravating the decline." But if the U.S. ran into the red in depression years, it had to show a surplus in prosperous years-and that meant...
...Cambridge, Coach Arthur Valpey refused to commit himself on the Yale announcement. He pointed out that his football team has a 12-week season (including early fall practice) and that daily practices are two hours in length. These statistics are exactly in line with the Torch's proposals...
Cold Feet. Near Potsdam, Germany, emerging from the icy water of Grunewald Lake, a shivering couple explained to police what they were doing there at this time of year: they had planned to commit suicide, but the water was too cold...
...much power as burning about 4 billion pounds of coal. Wrote Professor Henry D. Smyth (now an AECommissioner) in his famous 1945 Report: "Should a scheme be devised for converting to energy as much as a few percent of some common material, civilization would have the means to commit suicide at will...