Word: committing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main line in an attempt to derail a pay train. The attempt failed. But when a posse set out after him, George and a companion named "Dutch Charley" Burris bushwhacked two of them, killed them, and also stole their horses-about as low a crime as a man could commit. Dutch Charley was lynched almost as soon as he was caught; Big Nose George managed to survive until that night on the telegraph pole...
...Foreign Ministers did not officially commit themselves on the Schuman plan, merely reaffirmed the West's intentions of guiding West Germany back into the community of nations. The Foreign Ministers said that there would not be a peace treaty with Germany as long as the Russians held on to the country's eastern half. Meanwhile, the conference assigned experts to work out a plan to ease the technical state of war which exists between the Allies and West Germany. As many occupation controls as possible would be lifted-according to "the rate at which Germany advances toward . . . true...
...matter was put on the agenda of a National Security Council meeting Dec. 29, 1949. General Omar Bradley stated the case for holding Formosa. He made a bad job of it. Acheson dominated the meeting with a few well-chosen questions. Example: Were the armed forces ready & willing to commit the necessary forces to hold Formosa...
Representatives of the armed forces answered that they were not willing to commit major portions of U.S. strength to the island. Nobody asked the pertinent question: Would it cost the U.S. more in terms of commitment of armed strength to hold Formosa or to lose Formosa? The discussion degenerated into fuzzy agreement with Acheson that nothing could or should be done. When Truman looked around the room for dissenters to the Acheson view, he did not hear any, although several of the officials went away muttering that the wrong policy had been adopted...
...list: pledges not to accept bribes, obtain false ration cards, travel on trains without tickets, forge signatures, commit abortion or arson. The disciples also promised not to adulterate milk with water, or flour with powdered stone, and "not to tell a lie to marry off one's daughters . . . for example, not to tell about a blind girl that she has eyesight...