Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting bored and want to change the topic of conversation, all I have to do is say I'm going to kill myself. It generally works. I mean, it's usually enough to switch the conversation to something else-not to whether I'm actually going to commit suicide or not, because they know I'm not going to do that but just to a more interesting subject than they were talking about before...
...crazy, yes I wanted to be a Weatherman, yes I wanted to commit suicide . . . and I'm going to Law School...
...confutation with black students a year and a half later was also due to a poor sense of polities. She has a tendency to try to please as many people as possible in any given. situation, which ends up offending all. Black Radcliffe students had asked for a definite commitment on the part of the administration to recruiting more black students. The Class of 1972 had only 13 blacks out of 350 students. Again, a lack of finances was a reason behind the administration's delayed response. Students had asked for a reply to their demand that Radcliffe commit itself...
...different, of course, from what may be inferred from various statements by the President and members of his Administration, which suggest that virtually all U.S. ground troops will be out some time in the second half of 1972. So far, however, the President stoutly refuses to commit himself publicly to a final date or to specify what residual forces might be left behind. The impression-but it cannot be pinned down-is that the U.S. ground-combat role will end late this year, but that U.S. air-combat operations and logistical support could continue a year or two longer, with...
...four or five occasions." Prime object of his lethal impulse was British Critic Kenneth Tynan, whom Capote thought "despicable in every conceivable way," a judgment no doubt derived from a verbal bout over the merits of In Cold Blood. Pressed farther by the fascinated Frost, Capote explained, "Most people commit suicide because they can't kill the people who are tormenting them. Instead of bumping them off, they bump themselves off. Well, I'm not like that. I'm going to bump them off first...