Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon papers studied with fascination. It was sent to President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in response to a proposal from General Maxwell Taylor that the U.S. dispatch 8,000 troops to Viet Nam, ostensibly to work on flood relief. Taylor's recommendation included using the troops to commit American prestige in Viet Nam, to shore up morale and provide a back-up for the South Vietnamese army and to serve as an advance force for a wider American involvement. The cable argued against the recommendations, reasoning that the U.S. could still walk away from Viet Nam at this early...
...Idea. The idea that the best prescription for cancer is financial is an old one. Mary Lasker, the longtime medical philanthropist, has strenuously urged the nation to commit more of its resources to the search for a cancer cure. She has argued that the National Cancer Institute, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, lacks the means to exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation...
...where men up and down the chain-from President Johnson through Daniel Ellsberg-have agonized over their share in making and carrying out policy, there has never been any doubt about where ultimate responsibility lay. Lyndon Johnson anguished over his decisions to bomb North Viet Nam and to commit U.S. combat troops, and he could not escape the consequences...
...both professionally and theologically solid. Larry Norman, probably the top solo artist in the field, attacks the occult in his album Upon This Rock: "Forget your hexagram/ You'll soon feel fine/ Stop looking at the stars/ You don't live under the signs." Many Jesus-rock musicians commit their lives as well as their talent. Drummer Steve Hornyak, 30, of The Crimson Bridge, gave up a $35,000 house, a Toronado, and a career as a school-band director when another Jesus musician challenged him to "go tell about Jesus." Scott Ross, 31, a former New York disk jockey...
...because of its flavors that Baskin-Robbins is unslurpassed. The company's polka-dotted pleasure palaces offer 31 constantly changing tastes. Right now, for example, ice cream cravers can commit caloric immolation with Blueberries 'n Cream, Pink Bubble Gum and Boysenberry Cheesecake. There is a newly consummated marriage of Bananas 'n Strawberries, a tangerine-vanilla merger called Tanganilla, plus the usual array of popular holdovers from months past: Caramel Rocky Road, German Chocolate Cake and Pistachio Almond Fudge, among others...