Word: committed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as an individual develops a personality which defines his characteristic approach to the problems of living, artists develop a manner of handling visual problems which characterizes all their work. Many artists commit themselves to presenting solution to problems of representation with a specific style. It seems particularly true, in the twentieth century's rapidly shifting waves of fashion, that many of these artists capsize and sink...
Just Collectors. Also in custody were 19 Minutemen, charged with such offenses as conspiracy to commit arson, illegal possession of weapons, incitement to riot and unlawful assembly. At their arraignment, attorneys suggested that the suspects were really no more than innocent "gun collectors." But the district attorney's men said they knew better. Agents from B.O.S.S., New York City's Bureau of Special Services, had infiltrated the organization and clocked the Minutemen's every move for nearly a year. They reported that the would-be guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain...
...avoid high credit rates, Bergesen has financed the construction of ever bigger ships largely from his own fortune. Many shipowners, needing vast amounts of outside capital for new construction, are forced to commit their unbuilt ships to charter in advance, often at poor rates. Unlike them, Bergesen has flexibility, as he puts it, "to build the right ships at the right time, then fix the right charter contracts." Altogether, his wholly self-owned company earned $13.5 million after taxes last year...
...been accused of murder last June. Powell also passed-whereupon his accuser confessed the crime. The day after Powell's release, the prosecutor tested Donald G. Carter, 19, who had spent three months in jail awaiting trial for a burglary that he insisted he did not commit. Carter also passed; the police rechecked his story and belatedly discovered that he was telling them the truth from the start: he was in state prison on another charge at the time of the burglary...
...Gallic authors follow the criminal careers of the separate members of the subdivided victim, grafted as they are onto blameless citizens. As for the anomalous occurrences in the bedroom, no mind need boggle. The upshot of this gruesome farce is that the head of the condemned criminal contrives to commit several posthumous murders...