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Word: committing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haines would not commit himself as to his choice of coxswains, however. "Mo" Ordesky has been with Burns' boat during the vacation, while Bruce Williams has faced Laporte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150-lb Crew Seeks Starting Eight | 4/8/1952 | See Source »

...dramatic Gigolo and Gigolette, in which a high-diver (Glynis Johns) plans to commit suicide because she thinks her husband no longer loves her. Reassured of his affection, she safely makes the 80-ft. leap into a five-foot tank of flaming water while morbid Riviera spectators look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...regard to the caption ["Should professors commit suicide?"] on the March 17 cover: HELL YES! The educational system of the U.S. would be a lot better off if some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Young and the Damned (Oscar Dancigers; Mayer-Kingsley) are a gang of savage slum children running wild on the outskirts of Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imports, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Although he refused to commit himself until more information about the results of the boron experiments is available, Sweet admitted it was hoped that some day a point would be reached where the therapy would take the place of surgery, when "it is possible to destroy the morbid tissue without brain injury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atom Particle Locates Tumors; Furnishes New Cancer Detector | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

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