Word: committed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second picture, "The Case of the Curious Bride," Warren William, Allen Jenkins, and Claire Dodd maintain the precedent set by "The Case of the Howling Dog." We refuse to commit ourselves as to what the precedent...
...dreamed a most terrible dream. I had never before been responsible for the safety of a foreign sovereign. For any failure there could be but one expiation. Every night I dreamed that I was summoned by my chief, the Minister of Home Affairs, and ordered by His Excellency to commit hara-kiri...
With regard to the chances of the Freshman tracksters, Coach Eddie Farrell could not commit himself yesterday, since he is relying on the meet to furnish conclusive proof of their abilities...
...reaction is bound to be different than if Hitler announced his intentions of capturing Alsace-Lorraine, Belgium, Holland, etc. So long as hostilities are to take place in the East, Britain is concerned only indirectly, and can hardly be expected to enter into alliances with France and Italy which commit her beyond all recall. To use a phrase dear to Grey, "British public opinion would never sanction" such a commitment. Britain is unlikely to do more than express her strong disapproval of recent events in Germany. She will doubtless indulge herself, through the mouths of Sir John Simon and Ramsay...
...Latin: "We consider it would be a horrible crime, a foolish manifestation of wrath, if peoples again took arms one against the other to spill blood, brothers against brothers, so that destruction and ruin would be sown from the skies, on land and at sea. ... If anybody should commit this nefarious crime-and may the Almighty put far from us this sad forecast which we on our part believe will not come to pass-then we cannot help but appeal again to Almighty God with this prayer from saddened souls...