Word: commits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal campaign manager, but he will work closely with Burch through party machinery. Burch is already drafting a plan to "make the National Committee the instrument of the campaign and the party." The present National Committee staff will likely be pared by half. Key Goldwater men will move into commit tee offices in Washington...
...Negro blood. The Civil War interrupts, and the men go off to fight. But when the weary combatants return and meet at the gate of the ruined plantation, young Henry Sutpen shoots down his half-brother Charles Bon. Why? Was it because of a fear that Judith would commit incest? Or miscegenation...
...those who knew my husband that the returned verdict was guilty of murder in the first degree instead of not guilty by reason of insanity. As members of his family, we did not expect the law to excuse his crimes, but to treat the condition that made him commit them. Winston Moseley for his 28 years has been quiet, shy and alone. He has been a devoted husband and father; then, it seemed, something snapped psychologically and made him commit antisocial acts. His behavior was called an "irresistible impulse" by psychiatrists, who explained that such people are unable to control...
...President Johnson landed at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport in a ten-passenger Air Force JetStar. Where was Air Force One, the giant, four-jet Boeing liner the President usually rides? Well, explained an aide, on purely political trips like this one the Air Force bills the Democratic National Commit tee for presidential transportation. The tab for Air Force One is $2,350 an hour, for the JetStar only...
...phrase "approved by the General Education Committee," we do not mean by this to commit the Committee to the examination of the contents and conduct of every course in the catalogue and to the selection of a few specimens for its list. We intend only to give the Committee the power to exclude courses that are clearly inappropriate for General Education...