Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frazier also takes issue with his colleagues who try to draw a psychiatric profile of a murderer. "From what we know now," he says, "we cannot predict either who is going to commit murder or which people will commit single murders and which will do multiple murders...
...tell me? Tell me, tell me what I am supposed to do!" Wulff answered that for his part he intended to go home and wait for the arrival of the allied armies. If he saw in any of his horoscopes that Himmler was soon to commit suicide, he does not tell us. He does end on a note of good cheer: "National Socialism was smashed and disappeared from the scene. Astrology . . . remained." ∎Otto Friedrich
...world of Eddie Coyle and "friends" is a passionless and dead-end one, as stony faced as the sentencing they suffer. The stolen goods they traffic and the robberies they commit, help support their families, with perhaps even enough leftover for that "trip to Florida." But they never make enough to quit the game. Jail, finally, is the only real stake. The game breeds a grim desperation. "Life's hard, but it's harder when you're stupid," says gunseller Jackie Brown. Not being stupid means making the best deal...
Haldeman was more emphatic in making a few flat denials. He said that both Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder, former Nixon campaign deputy, were wrong in testifying that on separate occasions they had told him that Magruder intended to commit perjury...
...give-and later did give-to the original Watergate grand jury and at the Watergate trial. Mitchell conceded that the testimony planned by Magruder, designed to limit the indictments to Liddy's level, was false. In other words, Mitchell admitted that he knew Magruder was planning to commit perjury. Mindful of the law about suborning perjury, however, Mitchell carefully explained: "Magruder did it of his own free will. Nobody coerced him to do this." Sessions that Dean had described as efforts to rehearse Magruder on his perjury were described differently by Mitchell: "Mr. Magruder would seek an audience...