Word: committing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Armistice terms forbid Italians to commit hostile acts against citizens of the United Nations, Signor Mollica published his challenge in the Roman press, hoped that the Soviet Embassy would relay it promptly. When a U.S. newshawk called to ask questions, Signor Mollica snapped to attention, clicked his heels and asked politely: "Do you represent Signor Vishinsky...
...After being criticized once before (TIME, Dec. 31) for the very same thing Winchell declared that he would not care to commit his funds in such a way that their value would be damaged by a mere radio commentator...
...China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...
Bedelia allows Margaret Lockwood to poison three husbands for their insurance and then commit suicide when her fourth begins to get the idea. Suicide, in the U.S., is a sloppy out for wrongdoers. A tidy U.S. ending will hand the murderess over to the cops...
...Allies to demand that Stalin lift the iron curtain is plain stupid. He is not yet ready to commit suicide. If intercourse is established between Russia and the people of the world, that will be the end of Stalin and Communism. The most gigantic fraud in history will be disclosed and its collapse will be certain. . . . Stalin knows the democracies better than they know themselves...