Word: committed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were 15,000 pleasure boats in the U.S. In 1947, there were 2,440,000. Last year, there were 7,468,000, and $2,506,000,000 was spent on them. Their skippers commit all manner of insanities-overloading outboards to the swamping point, buzzing each other for fun, cutting across bows, swooshing through swimmers with never a thought for their whirling propeller blades, examining the scenery instead of the sea before them as though there were no tomorrow. Frequently there is none. In 1962, there were 3,897 pleasure vessels involved in 3,085 accidents reported...
This poet, the future martyr Jean-Baptist Hippolyte Marie-Henri Muscari, is visited by the local priest and frankly admits he did not commit any of the crimes. He has done it to gain notcriety, a condition quite unknown in his dismal career. "You do not know how bitter it is to be ignored," he tells the priest...
...ease the nation's critical dearth of living space and clear its squalid legacy of slums, Labor promises to commit more public funds to new housing and redevelopment, restore rent controls, and regulate new construction. Labor also aims to break the age-old power of wealthy landowners, who seldom sell property outright but give developers long-term leases on which the landlords continue to collect "ground rent." New legislation would give all leaseholders the right to buy actual "freehold" ownership of their land...
Addressing the graduating class of the U.S. Air Force Academy last week, President Kennedy dropped into his speech a new section that had not been in the text issued the day before. Said the President: "I'm announcing today that the United States will commit itself to develop a commercially successful supersonic transport superior to that being built in any other country in the world...
...calculated that "several thousand" women are also being held as political prisoners, under much the same conditions as the men. They are beaten with rifle butts, tumbled about by streams from fire hoses, locked up with Lesbians and prostitutes, stripped and abused by male guards. One girl tried to commit suicide with a belt; eventually set free, she was by then so deranged that she killed herself at home "by setting fire to her clothing...