Word: committing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irrigate 2,000,000 acres of desert, is estimated to cost $1.3 billion over a period of ten years. The U.S. has offered to grant $56 million outright and Britain another $14 million, for a start. Further grants have been promised, but cannot be guaranteed because the U.S. cannot commit Congress more than a year in advance. A major chunk is to come in the form of $200 million loans from the World Bank. Though most of the details of financing were settled months ago, there have been mysterious delays, which Nasser blames...
...Arabs read it and blew up. They insisted that the council must strike the whole paragraph out: such words might commit the four Arab states to more than a military truce with the Israelis. Syria's Delegate Ahmed el Shu-kairy said flatly that to satisfy the Arabs "the establishment of Israel, its membership in the U.N. . . will have to be revoked...
...Democratic State Central Commit tee, firmly under Clements' control even before last week's voting, is expected to name a Clements man as his running mate in Kentucky's other 1956 senatorial contest-for the unexpired term of the late Alben Barkley. About the only consolation left Happy Chandler was that under state law, he can appoint someone to serve in the Barkley post until the November general election...
...asks Phil for directions, then asks him to come over and see her some time at her neighboring villa. Phil does, and night after furtive night the two make hi-infidelity music together. Inwardly tormented. Phil confesses his faithlessness to Vinca, begging her with newborn masculine vanity not to commit suicide for love of him "either now or later." No death wisher, Vinca responds in a way that confirms Colette's renown as an astute psychologist of women in love...
...gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. It is a business almost indistinguishable from that of a seller of snake-oil for rheumatism. As for a lawyer, he is simply, under our cash-register civilization, one who teaches scoundrels how to commit their swindles without too much risk. As for a physician, he is one who spends his whole life trying to prolong the lives of persons whose deaths, in nine cases out of ten, would be a public benefit. The case of the pedagogue is even worse. Consider...