Word: committing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crime & Settlement. Next to murder, the worst crime a Guajiro Indian can commit is to call another Indian by his true name in Guajiro language; to get around this difficulty, all Indians have names in Spanish as well as in their own tongue. But any crime, even murder, can be squared by payment of goats, the accepted currency of the Guajiros...
...Maria misreads the character of father & son. It never enters her head that so dull a man as the doctor could love her in selfless fashion. She thinks that son Raymond may bring her romance and a fresh start-until he attacks her crudely. She tries, vainly, to commit suicide. Years later, by now a hardened rake, Raymond thinks to himself: "Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion strengthens it, virtue keeps it awake . . . It is a frantic and a horrible obsession...
...split. For Mao to rebel against Stalin, or for Stalin to force Mao into a rebellion, would be a blunder bordering on insanity. Both Mao and Stalin have made big mistakes before, but there is little in their long, successful careers to indicate that they are likely to commit such a whopper...
...whatever happens in Korea, we must not make the mistake of jumping to the conclusion that the Soviet rulers have given up their ideas of world conquest. . . They are putting themselves in the position where they can commit new acts of aggression at any time." Then he passed along a piece of intelligence: Rumania recently cleared a strip of land 30 miles deep along her Yugoslav border. "Bulgaria and Hungary have done the same thing. Military preparations have been going on in those zones along the border...
...went on down the road and borrowed a trailer from someone else. Later that afternoon, two deputy sheriffs arrested him. One of the "boys," they said, was 17-year-old Willa Jean Boswell, dressed in dungarees and terrapin shell hat. Farmer Ingram was charged with "assault . . . with intent to commit rape" against...