Word: committing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ringing denunciation of the Administration's whole conduct of world affairs since Teheran and Yalta. The U.S., said he, has embarked on a fatal path-"policies which may lead to unnecessary war, policies which may wreck the internal economy . . . and vastly weaken our economic abilities . . . policies which may commit us to obligations we are utterly unable to perform...
Having proved themselves in combat, the Sabres may be useful as protective cover for bombers and for the slow, propeller-driven Mustangs which have been the Air Force's work horse for ground attack in the Korean war. If Russia decided to commit a swarm of fast jets, the Mustangs would be sitting ducks if unprotected-but not if top-covered by enough Sabres...
...will join us in that ... If any appeasement is needed, I would say that the British could make a very excellent gesture by offering Hong Kong to the Communists . . . I've been an interventionist for the last 20 years, but I think it will be very difficult to commit the U.S. to the land defense of continental Europe unless the other nations help us in the Far East...
...morally justified to take defensive measures proportionate to the danger. That would mean use of the atomic bomb, as no power would launch a surprise attack on the United States without an adequate supply of atomic bombs . . . Neither reason nor theology nor morals requires men or nations to commit suicide by requiring that we must await the first blow...
...ignorant and proud. The old man sells his orchard to his neighbor, Fonse (Henri Poupon), then pulls a gun when he sees Fonse uprooting precious trees. When the village priest forces a compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into a sickbed. Though Pagnol's film technique is static, his grasp of character and locale makes for a human film that is, by turns, uproarious and more than a little...