Word: committing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...utterances of Governor Caldwell are not half so likely to cause additional killings as commuting to life imprisonment the sentences of criminals who commit such heinous crimes...
...springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest chimeras, go down in the end in agony, but leave behind a record of new heights scaled and new rewards won for all mankind; the vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again...
...light of the past, the significant fact about 1945 was that it was the last year of World War II. But in the light of the future, it was the first year in which civilization possessed, in the sober words of the Smyth Report, "the means to commit suicide at will...
...them principles-and on those he could never compromise. One of those principles, however hard of application, was Freedom. Another of those principles was that the end never justifies the means. And, putting those two principles together, he could never allow himself to say that it is justifiable to commit crimes in order to achieve for man a "larger freedom...
Censorship is a necessary shield, wrote Baltisky, "in democratic countries, including Russia," against "all kinds of poisonous slander harmful to the cause of peace," and is justified "as long as influential newspapers or private owners" commit slander. Baltisky suggested a further extension: a world court to judge "internationally dangerous newspaper crimes" such as "a systematic urging toward war" and "political slander of any peace-loving state-that is, the spreading of knowingly false inventions...