Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regimes which Nixon and Kissinger seek to defend in Southeast Asia are among the most cruel and totalitarian in the world. Their leaders imprison their political enemies, commit indiscriminate murder, and impose a rule of terror and dictatorship on their native populations. And it is not out of some perverted sense of fairness or democracy that these regimes are being defended. It is out of a harsh, brutal calculation of what an imperialist, power like the United States must do to maintain itself in the world...
...thousands of others who are relatively safe from the draft also seem reluctant to commit themselves to a vocation. Of the 1,139 students in Harvard's class of '67, 90 declared themselves "undecided" about their career plans; of this year's 1,100 or so, there are at least 250 in that limbo. Last year the placement director at Beloit wrote to every junior, suggesting that they chat with him about how to prepare a resume to get a job. "I didn't get one response," he says. "Vocational planning to them is anathema, an Establishment sort of thing...
...capital case. This system of rewards was intended to break up London's big gangs by making betrayal profitable. The trouble was that although there were some 350 capital offenses on the books, it was not always easy or politic to lay hands on those who had actually committed them. This led naturally to frame-ups, and also to a brisk trade in children and other innocents who were induced to commit crimes so that they might be betrayed...
Yesterday's triumph was a master-piece of defense as Harvard did not commit an error until the victory was sealed in the ninth. Kelly completely dominated the Big Red batting line-up and only allowed two runners to reach second base...
...miner who was also a dedicated Communist, young Honecker was handing out political pamphlets at eight and was a full-fledged party member at 18. Two years after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was arrested and later sentenced to ten years in prison for preparing to commit high treason...