Word: committing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued life of Hideki Tojo. But for the Battle of Midway, he would certainly have been the Man of 1942. His war had been the coldest and most calculating of all, his machinations the most arrogant, his nation's defeat the most ruinous. When he tried to commit suicide he failed again; at year's end he lived on, saved from death by U.S. blood, shunned by his countrymen, still able to read that U.S. strategists had decoded his every intention, that he had never really had a chance...
...morning last week big, bluff Senator Alben Barkley rose in the caucus room of the Senate Office Building and rapped for order. Spectators filled the hall to the corners. Senator Barkley asked for absolute quiet; the acoustics are notoriously bad. The Congressional commit tee's investigation of Pearl Harbor had begun: in the days & weeks to follow, history would be dragged up from the dark corners, dusted off and laid out on the committee table for the world to read...
...dictate policy, or the right to eliminate people from positions because they happen to disagree with you. The Emergency Council (wartime substitute for the Student Board) of last June has so interrupted its rights. We want to modify its constitution in such a way that never again can commit such arbitrary and arrogant acts again...
...secret of the bomb should be committed to a World Government, and the United States should immediately announce its readiness [to do so]. . . . This Government should be founded by the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain. . . . All three of them should commit to this World Government all of their military strength...
...state of siege has been declared because murder and robbery are spreading throughout the country. Every person committing or attempting to commit murder or robbery will be tried by court-martial. ... If the accused is found guilty, he will be executed within three hours...