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Word: commits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acknowledge that all people in China "are very clear that Chairman Mao was responsible for their plight during the Cultural Revolution"-the sole official recognition of Mao's mistakes made in the trial. But the prosecutor hastily added that Mao could not have ordered his wife to commit such crimes as the attacks on high state and party officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: A Leader's Rise, a Widow's Fall | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...Murphy's best hope now is that Judge George Pratt will follow the precedent of Philadelphia Judge John P. Fullam, who last month overturned the convictions of two city councilmen on the grounds that the elaborate FBI operation had entrapped the defendants and induced them to commit a crime. The two Congressmen plan to appeal, but they may have difficulty arguing that they were entrapped, because they did not raise the issue in their trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Abscam (Contd.) | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...that he had picked up a "half-hundred" foreign photographs for William. "But they are too dear to permit me to buy any fancy ones for you," the letter continued, "...If I had only brought a little more money with me!" Later in her life, when she threatened to commit suicide during one of her nervous attacks, Henry senior blithely informed her "that so far as I was concerned she had my full permission to end her life whenever she pleased...

Author: By Sara L. Frankel, | Title: Bill and Hank's Sister | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...time. Says a friend: "She covered the pain for two hours every afternoon. It was sheer determination." Says Irina Kosmovska, who began teaching Darci in California when she was eleven: "Darci was a fountain of energy. She tried everything. She was one of my most intense students-she would commit suicide on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A New Sunbeam, Traveling Fast | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...threats, as well as against those who "normally" foster such outrages, encourage them, enjoy them, privately applaud them? Unless Massachusetts and University Halls have dispatched youthful agents to shout racist remarks or scribble the snotty graffitti on Harvard's bathroom and elevator walls, or Faculty members and other employees commit these offenses, it must be your White fellow students who do them. Why not find out who the culprits and their cliques are, and address yourselves to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Almost Incredible' | 12/3/1980 | See Source »

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