Word: committing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular decoy to line up human steak platters. Between catastrophes, H. Hatterr asks himself the perennial questions of philosophy, some piffling, some reaching toward profundity: "Why is an evening paper published in the afternoon?" "Is there anything in this here 'Kismet' notion? If Destiny should commit a feller to the wrong woman, can anything prevent it happening...
...concerned; 2) that strategic importance related to keeping Formosa out of the hands of a [hostile] power and did not concern occupying or using Formosa by the U.S.; 3) in the existing condition and strength of the armed forces of the U.S., it was not possible to commit any forces whatever ... to the defense of Formosa; 4) the State Department should, to the best of its ability, by diplomatic and economic means, try to keep Formosa from falling into hands which would be hostile to us." This is the record of how the policy was actually followed...
...Catholic Church had strongly rallied to De Gasperi's side. The archbishops and bishops of Tuscany proclaimed: "Voters who give their votes to parties professing doctrines contrary to the Catholic faith commit a mortal sin." Why had Church intervention not produced a bigger anti-Communist vote? Explained the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: Not all Italians "born Catholic, and even professing still to be so, are .. . faithful followers of the Church...
...could not explain a personal check he had written to pay some "Ted Smith" taxes. Last week the jury brought in its verdict: guilty. The sentence: five years in the penitentiary. (Bonney and his lawyer will soon go to trial on charges of conspiring to commit fraud...
...Life So Nice? Roger Buliard found no "noble savages." The Eskimos revealed most of the standard human faults, plus a few special ones of their own, e.g., though Eskimos spoil their children, they sometimes commit infanticide. Buliard found them brave in the face of danger and stoic in the face of. death, but without the softer virtues of pity and compassion. They treat their women, Buliard concluded, as mere objects of comfort, and they occasionally kill rivals to get them. Yet they are capable of a certain philosophical appreciation of the value and transitoriness of life. Buliard is struck...