Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime novels in the next two years. All the while he denied being a crime novelist. "I don't write books about crime," he told me a few days after he finished writing this new novel on a then undisclosed topic. "I write books about people who happen to commit crimes." Teeth of the underworld's gears, people shown talking inside and outside their work, declaring whatever pops into their heads for Higgins...
...didn't quite come up with all 57 varieties, but the squad did squander 11 hits and commit seven errors to let Harvard roll to a 9-2 victory and the coveted Cambridge championship. The Crimson, meanwhile, parlayed eight hits and numerous walks, along with a nearly flawless defense, to run off with the three and a half hour Cantabridgian free-athon...
...will ever get there. Sometimes the answer seems to be yes, sometimes no. And as far as what happens with the way things are now and have been for centuries, the Marias seem to offer two alternatives for women: either give yourself to your enemy and go mad or commit suicide like Maria, or else harden yourself like Joana, an invented character who coolly sends her lover suggestions for improving his technique...
here and for what reasons, then, should the U.S. be prepared to commit itself? The nation's fundamental foreign policy interest is of course survival as a free society. This means avoiding nuclear war, through 1) maintaining adequate U.S. armaments, 2) pursuing detente and its arms-limiting efforts like the SALT negotiations, and 3) as part of the foregoing, trying to avert local conflicts that could turn into nuclear war. A second fundamental U.S. foreign policy interest is to bolster allies and friends who share America's strategic, economic and (ideally) political goals. Obviously, in furthering these interests...
What should a top-priority commitment mean? For one thing, that the U.S. would be prepared to provide military aid in case of a serious outside threat. In some circumstances, Washington might be justified in using covert operations. Finally, the U.S. would be prepared to commit troops if American security was seriously menaced militarily...