Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other rifle experience and his established familiarity with this particular weapon show that he possessed ample capability to commit the assassination...
While University officials yesterday would not commit themselves to a specific course of action should the final foreign-aid bill contain a disclaimer provision, they pointed to the earlier fight as a signification of Harvard's feeling...
...Your article might give the masses the impression that one person's opinion is as good as another's within the church. This is not true. As a Catholic, I know that true believers attempt to commit themselves to the authority of the church during any apparent conflict between it and their own doubts on some moral issue. The idea of authority in the church is very sublime and beautiful if properly understood. True acceptance of the church's authority should not curtail one's freedom within the church...
...samurai code of honor breaks down when they present themselves in turn at the household of one Lord lyi, begging for "a corner of the porch" on which to commit harakiri-a sham heroism often used by ronin to draw out an offer of a job. After the first young warrior's ignoble death is forced upon him, largely as a diversion for the courtly company, a seasoned old fighter Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives seeking vegeance. The Tragedy unfolds austerely in flashbacks framed by Tsugumo's rather wordy debate with Lord Iyi's chief retainer, whose ridgid...
Having more or less publicly commit ted himself to seeking a civil rights meeting with President Johnson, Barry went about other business, waited a while before instructing an assistant to call the White House for an appointment. Meanwhile, news stories pro claimed that Goldwater was going to urge upon Johnson a pact that "civil rights be kept out of the campaign...