Word: committed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shaken Government. As the plane neared London, last stop before the hop across the Atlantic, Soblen stabbed himself in the abdomen with a steak knife while McShane was out of the compartment. Soblen was not attempting to commit suicide; he was trying to wound himself just enough to be hospitalized in Britain, thereby gaining time to try to obtain asylum...
...forbid that I should ever commit myself to a "retirement" city. Granted that my bones will creak, my hair will grey, but to cut myself off from the swingy zing of the mainstream of life would really make...
...A.M.A. experts had waited for years to commit themselves. As a result, the council was able to make a point that has only recently become clear to researchers: merely cutting down the amount of fat in the diet is not the way to lower the blood cholesterol. This is because less overall fat usually means an increase in consumption of carbohydrates (sugars and starches), which the body somehow converts into fats known as triglycerides. The right way, said the council, is to replace much of the saturated fat (in eggs, meat and dairy products) with the polyunsaturated forms found...
...first real target was boldly defined on May 25, 1961, when President Kennedy told Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." At that moment the U.S. was behind in the race to get men into space. The Russians had already shot Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on an orbit around the earth; blazing a trail for future space travelers, they had taken pictures of the unseen face of the moon. U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard had been forced...
...women, being in point of fact the dramatization of a true incident. For years Courteline had been living on the other side of a paper-thin wall from the mistress of poet Catulle Mendes, and for as many years had been silent witness to the infidelities she would blithely commit with a hidden lover the minute Mendes had closed the door behind him. Years later Courteline confessed all this to Mendes, who found it very amusing and insisted that the material was too good to go to waste. Hence a short story by Courteline, later adapted by him into...