Word: commits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lingo of the steersman seasoned, perhaps, with a spicy bit of Billinsgate will comprise part of the academic career of Harvard coxswains during the next few weeks. Not that the coxes will commit to memory the right thing to say at the right time in the right place to the right people. They will rather be aided in acquiring such a fluent vocabulary that other crews will stop in amazement...
...lifeboat drew near the Florida. The bow oar translated Officer Manning's commands to the derelict crew. The lifeboat stood off 50 feet, imperiled by wash from the listing vessel, and took off 32 men, with Capt. Favaloro last. Some of the men had prepared knives and poison to commit suicide. They were starved, half-naked, half-crazy. Capt. Fried and Officer Manning got them all aboard the America, landed them in Manhattan...
...been understood that my acceptance of the directorship would not commit me to any long continued term, and it was with some personal regret that I made a report which I felt might commit me for a longer time than I had contemplated; that is, for the length of time which would be required for this reorganization...
Governor Johnston denounced the impeachment proceedings as "an example of Mexican politics by a legislature not quite brave enough to commit physical assassination to get me, but scarcely less reprehensible." He has been under fire ever since he took office...
...Voluntary barrenness and reducing cures to rid her miserable body of every ounce of superfluous fat are the greatest crimes a woman can commit under the Fascist régime...