Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's crime rate could be appreciably reduced with proper rehabilitative training of men and women felons. Yet to suggest that this is reason enough for Gilmore's behavior, evinced before the need for rehabilitation was even apparent, is spurious. To further indict society, thereby acquitting Gilmore, is to commit a travesty of justice...
...Senate Subcommittee Staff Report of Military Sales to Iran, the one thing that came through so forcefully is that neither the President, nor any person or group of officials should ever again be able to make such fundamental decisions as supplying arms and ammunition to any country that will commit the involvement of the U.S.A., without the prior approval of Congress! We have these safeguards written into our Constitution. We must use them if we wish our system to work effectively and survive...
Acknowledging such criticism, Politburo Member Le Due Tho at the Congress attacked party cadres who have been so lacking in devotion as to "degenerate, abuse their powers, commit fraudulent acts, violate the law, bully the masses and so forth." Le Due Tho also lashed out against "corruption, bureaucracy, arbitrariness and autocracy." Some foreign observers thought his wording might be the prelude to a purge...
...pubescent daughter. He is saved by, among other things, World War II, which−rest assured−he sits out in the U.S., selling books in a shop in Chicago while his wife and twins are killed by the Nazis. Twenty years later Stefan returns to Europe to commit a romantic crime, have a religious revelation...
...London). Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tenor Placido Domingo, Soprano Catarina Ligendza; Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin, Eugen Jochum conducting (5 LPs, Deutsche Grammophon). Here are two performances-one extraordinary, one merely excellent-of an operatic marvel that over the years has proved difficult to commit to disc. The Solti is the more spacious and relaxed of the two; because of London's typically distant engineering, it also has a more homogenized sound. The Jochum is recorded very close up, too much so at one or two points, but the compensation is the thorough delineation of Wagner...