Word: commits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severe depression than Dr. Nathan S. Kline of New York's Rockland State Hospital. And no man has been quicker to admit that the drugs take too long-usually two to three weeks-to begin to work. Since depressed patients are the ones most likely to try to commit suicide, psychiatrists would like to give them a quick lift. Such help may soon be available, Dr. Kline told a pharmacology meeting in Prague; he has found a promising accelerator for psychic-energizer drugs...
...probably the coastal watch that one day spotted the Imperial Fleet making its sortie toward the Mariana Islands, intelligence that was radioed to Australia and Pearl Harbor, helped win the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fertig's forces, never more than 40,000 men, forced the enemy to commit more than 150,000 troops in its final effort to clean up Mindanao just before MacArthur's return...
Evidence Intrigue. All the Vietnamese military commanders are fighting with one eye cocked on Saigon. Generals are reluctant to commit troops to a large role, because Diem disapproves of generals who have heavy casualties. Always in fear of another coup against his regime, Diem also distrusts successful generals and shifts them about constantly to keep them from developing a power base...
Before I came down here I would not have believed, naive as I was, that the agents of law enforcement had the power or even the determination to commit the atrocities, if you'll pardon a favorite word of radicals, which have happened since I got here. My reaction to the news that I was charged with assault with intent to murder was a mixture of fear and incredulity, and later laughter. I threw a brick? I will be indicted and probably convicted on a felony, with a term of two to ten years? What a joke? I then...
...Sade's rage at the world was irrepressible. In two other novels, Justine and Juliette, he created an aristocracy of sexual perverts who inhabit lonely castles where they have unlimited license to commit foul crimes; where the most heroic is the most corrupt; where the true heroine does not try to preserve her virtue but to lose it as quickly as possible. Eventually, De Sade could not put on paper crimes vicious enough to satisfy him. "To attack the sun," he wrote, "to deprive the universe of it or to use it to set the world ablaze -these would...