Word: commits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Post runs a daily column of lo cal events called "Everything Is News," and apparently everything is. "A young tailor recently tried to commit suicide in his employer's backroom," reported the Post, "by strangling himself with his wife's brassiere. Rescued just in time by one of his fellow workers, the tailor fled out of the door with the black lace brassiere between his teeth." What made him do it? "He had become engaged to a bar hostess," the Post concluded, "who was endowed with a most enviable bosom. However, after several months, he found his bride...
...extended its margin to 20-11 with 6:41 left in the half; then Grate came into the game and Harvard switched to its press. It thoroughly discombobulated the Terriers, forcing them to foul and commit numerous ball-handling errors...
...next demonstration of the new class loyalty will be a high school revolt "that will look more like Watts than Berkeley," Goodman prophesied. "Some principal will make a guy cut off his locks," he will commit suicide from humiliation, and his friends will burn down the school...
...Grail which motivates this glowing silkworm's Quest from coast to coast appears to be some mystic sense of Nowness, which, once possessed, will be the journalistic scoop of an epoch. Mainland commitment is no good, because "the moment you become a partisan of any cause you commit yourself to ideas fifty years old, because that's how long it takes an idea to become a cause.... George Orwell said everything that needs to be said about the current international scene in 1948." Well, statements like this don't quite read as cleverly as they speak, and neither does...
...depth." He went on to point out that in the case of an agnostic pacifist, Daniel Seeger, the Court threw out the Supreme Being requirement and put on a broad interpretation on "religious belief." But the decision in Seeger's favor specifically refused to commit the court to exempting an atheist pacifist...