Word: committing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II; Dulles personally handed Russia's copy to Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik in New York City last month. Not until last week did Moscow's reply arrive. In diplomatic routine, it was simply a memorandum which, like the original U.S. proposals, did not commit anyone to anything. Sample of its tone: "An explanation is desired as to whether . . . the possibility exists of concluding a separate peace with Japan with only a few of the powers participating." (The answer, the U.S. had already said...
...Still at large in New Zealand last week was Convict Cecil Gurr Otto who also escaped duress by walking out of a hospital. Two years ago Otto had murdered a woman, and in remorse tried to commit suicide. He succeeded only in blowing half his face away. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, Otto was sent to a hospital near Christchurch for plastic surgery. Authorities put him on his honor not to escape. Last fortnight, equipped with new, nearly healed features, he simply walked out of the hospital. New Zealand police admitted that recapture would be difficult. The only...
...adhesive tape, then gallop up & down Municipal Stadium for some six miles before 100,000 witnesses who will hardly even notice him. The fans will be watching the Army-Navy game and the four stripe-shirted officials will be just mobile scenery, chiefly worth attention only if they commit bloopers or get knocked down and run over by a power play...
...listened to the first performance of a new work by an unknown young composer. Roared Damrosch, in facetious disavowal of music that he had nonetheless thought well worth performing: "If a young man of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder...
Fairbank, who was convinced that the order to commit Chinese troops to the Korean conflict came from the central government, disagreed with the suggestion of his colleague, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, that the instructions to the Chinese in Korea are not coming from...