Word: committing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waltari lets his fool rush into every crime a man can commit, and into many of the major scenes of the 16th Century -Michael is present at the Stockholm Massacre of 1520 and the sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. He talks with Luther and Erasmus, studies with Paracelsus. In this way, the reader gets alternate doses of high and low life that may be intended, like the hot & cold treatments of a Finnish steam bath, to make him tingle all over. In Waltari overdoses, the treatment brings on numbness...
...reaction slightly less violent than that of a Mrs. Agnes Denmandson of Seattle who protested the legalization of 3.2 beer in 1933 by proclaiming: "Anyone who will drink beer will commit murder...
...idealists with their 'higher reasons' commit more sins against men than the materialists. I believed in these 'higher reasons' as a young man; but there are no such things...
When the first U.S. battalions reached Korea, the U.S. commanders had to decide whether to commit them piecemeal, or to build up in greater safety behind the Kum River and wait for the enemy to come south. MacArthur and Dean chose the former. It remained to be seen whether the time gained was worth the cost in casualties and heartbreak to the U.S. troops. Last week they took a severe beating. As this week began, the U.S. troops, with tanks and better artillery reaching them at last, showed signs of standing their ground...
Somehow, the incredulous police surmised, Long had managed to commit murder, automobile theft and possibly abduction under the very noses of the FBI. Portlanders gasped with dismay and wondered how it could have happened. The taciturn men of the FBI offered only an embarrassed, partial explanation-they had seen Long drive off with the carpenter, feared they would be spotted if they followed them into the wide-open countryside, left Long uncovered from midnight...