Word: commits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...established tick, Dr. Philip explains, is so pleased with his situation that almost nothing will force him to let go. He will hang on grimly, even while being killed by insecticides. He can drop away any time he wants to, but if pulled roughly he is apt to commit suicide by abandoning his mouth-parts...
...Deterrent. It would do no good to enact still harsher punitive laws, the re-searchers suggested, because the people who are going to commit sex crimes are so emotionally disturbed that they do not count the possible cost. Unhappily, there is no sure way to spot them before they go wrong. But the courts are making more use of the state's "sex-psychopath law," which provides psychiatric treatment for convicted offenders. And (except for homosexuals) they rarely repeat their offenses after they get out on parole...
...Senator Bricker and those who support his proposed Constitutional amendment burrow into the basic law, they commit the United States to perpetual international conservatism. Bricker's proposal to limit presidential powers of treaty and agreement would hamstring our future in world government and injure immediate cooperation with allied nations...
...girls are not willing to commit themselves definitely to living in a French House, the idea will be shelved, Mrs. Mary S. Moser, Dean of Residence, said last week...
Alfred's interest in poetry grew up alongside his religious education. While attending the Holy Innocents, he embarked on a fourteen page epic about Christ: "Since my experience was ended at twelve, I couldn't picture anyone older than twelve--so I had him commit suicide." Such is Alfred's marvelous compound of a serious scarch for answers in life and an equally acute eye for the comical. "I remember a bobby soxer walked into Briggs and Briggs one day and asked for Dylan Thomas' recording of all the useless Christmas presents he received." Alfred thrusts his upper teeth...