Word: commits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Kohout describes Wolf and Simsa's pasts, the commonness, the very ordinary aspects of these people, is striking. They weren't born with a natural talent for killing; they didn't commit sadistic acts on their siblings. They are now executioners because they were good at following orders, at working within and for the system. They could just as well be gardeners...
...could have come in back of her and gotten shot in the hand. If there was a struggle over the gun, someone else would have been wounded." Added Geneva Tyler, a keypunch operator: "It was a lot of shots. If you're going to commit suicide, you only need one, in the right place...
...Japanese, "nuclear stockpiles have grown . . . Even if a mere fraction of the available weapons were to be used, one has to ask whether . . . the very destruction of humanity is not a real possibility." He added: "To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war. To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace...
Cawley said at first the work "seemed like the world's oldest con job," and that he still has "too many doubts to commit myself...
...stem from a belief that the "massive safeguards for accused persons" built up by the judicial system in recent decades are out of proportion with the protection now afforded to law abiding citizens. He urged more stringent standards on bail to prevent the release of suspects likely to commit a crime between their arrest and trial. For those who end up behind bars, he renewed his familiar proposals for better facilities, improved training, and more sensible incentives to "learn the way out of prison...