Word: committed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never had a crisis of conscience." In a recurrent dream, she dies, now in a road accident, now of disease. "I keep thinking as I'm dying, I wanted to be better, more virtuous. I think to be good it's not sufficient just not to commit adultery. I cried when Tom Dooley died because I'll never do anything good and hard like that." But. in the words of one of her brothers. Jean Kerr is no "beads-in-the-pocket type of Catholic." When Jean heard that the Vatican was going to blacklist Simone de Beauvoir...
Reston's article cited divergent views in the Administration. Although we are frightened of Castro spreading a pro-Communist revolution throughout South America, Reston explained, our treaties commit us to a position of neutrality. Any violation of those treaties would endanger the United States' reputation of moral integrity in a world in which U.S. policy is based on a series of alliances...
Kennedy warned Gromyko of the gravity of the Laos crisis. U.S. prestige is so deeply committed in Laos, he said, that the crisis could explode into World War III. Gromyko retorted without bluster. He urged that the U.S. halt its military buildup of marines, guerrilla fighters and helicopters in northern Thailand until the Soviets had time to reply to the Anglo-U.S. truce offer. Kennedy did not commit himself. But the fact was that the U.S. buildup in Thailand did slacken during the week...
...Soldier. Branwell's sad saga ought to have made a more compelling story than Novelist Daphne Du Maurier has made of it. She is too busy justifying Branwell to do psychological justice to his twisted life. As a boy, Branwell was startlingly precocious. At eight, he could commit a page to memory on a single reading, repeat a lesson verbatim, store away names, dates, and places with faultless recall. Ambidextrous, he could write two letters at once. His proud, high-strung curate father had been left a widower with six small children, five of them girls (the two oldest...
Eberly was not discouraged that the Harvard project attracted only 50 applicants. "It's only normal to expect students to commit themselves to young ladies, business, and the Army," he said. In December, 370 upperclassmen said they would be interested in a two-year teaching assignment in Nigeria, but, as Eberly pointed out, only 110 were seniors...