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Word: committing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazidom's living ex-rulers, now under lock & key in the city jail at Nuremberg, where the first trials will take place in September. Now that Russia had entered the Pacific war, it would probably also be the picture for those Japanese war lords who do not commit harakiri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Definition | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Gone was the battle line which had dominated the Pacific in the first months after Pearl Harbor. The manner of its passing revealed the inherent weakness of Japan's imperial aspirations; Japan's sea lords, with all their bombast, had never dared commit the battle fleet as a unit in a bold strike for strategic mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Death of a Fleet | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...said to him wearily: "I suppose it will be impossible for even America to send us all the food we need to survive. But the least the Allies can do is to distribute poison to those who want it. Now we don't even have any way to commit suicide. You will see when the gas is turned on again how many of us will kill ourselves before we starve to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Poison Please | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...somewhat paranoiac, so his wife Janet (Jane Randolph) has to support him by driving a taxi. Her husband becomes jealous of one of her fares, a Dr. Brent (John Loder), and the doctor's handsome colleague, Monica (Karen Morley). About the time Cinemactor Asther stops threatening to commit suicide or murder, he is murdered himself. Who kills him is something of a mystery, but even those who are not much mystified will find other things to interest them in the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1945 | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...stronger measures against resisters. The testimony showed that he had become embittered against the-prewar French Gov ernment because it preferred the German nitrogen process to his own, that he was a close friend of Royalist Leader Charles Maurras. After the Allied landing in North Africa, he tried to commit suicide by swallowing a heavy dose of strychnine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Paranoia? | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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