Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, marks the Broadway spot where a superior mystery thriller may be found. In the course of a suspenseful evening, Playwright Knott (Dial "M" for Murder) shows that it takes almost as much skill to write the perfect crime as to commit...
With patience, stubbornness and political cunning. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85, has for years avoided being pinned down on the fascinating question of when he will retire. Heirs apparent have aged while waiting in vain for der Alte to step down. Last week he was finally forced to commit himself. In order to form a coalition government between his Christian Democratic Union and Erich Mende's Free Democratic Party. Adenauer reportedly had to promise a written guarantee that he will resign the chancellorship. His distant deadline: summer...
Outrunning a defender to reach a long downfield pass by Davies, he gained control of the ball within ten yards of the goal, slightly to the left. Hesitating long enough to make the goalie commit himself, O'Hiri streaked past him on the left. On the point of going out of bounds to the left of the Cornell cage, he stopped the ball and twisted to punch a right footed kick high into the goal, less than a foot inside...
What John F. Kennedy hoped to get across was a simple, eloquent thought: "Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace... I pledge you every effort this nation possesses. I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression, that we shall neither flee nor threaten the use of force, that we shall never negotiate out of fear and never fear to negotiate...
...Catcher in his Harvard course on Character and Social Structure in the U.S., perhaps because every campus has its lonely crowd of imitation Holdens?doomed wearers of raincoats-in-December, who rehearse faithfully their Caulfield hyperbole ("It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn...