Word: committing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important discussions centered on European integration, where, according to the French, the British have been dragging their feet. Bevin explained Britain's position-particularly on the U.S.-backed European payments scheme: 1) the United Kingdom's dollar reserves are so low that she cannot commit herself to any plan that would mean a further drain; and 2) as banker to the sterling area, Britain can do nothing that would tend to disrupt that trading system...
...Nikola Martinovic, who flew into London from Switzerland last week, described himself as a political refugee from Tito's Yugoslavia seeking asylum in Britain. When immigration inspectors told him that his visa had expired, he shouted wildly: "I don't want to go back! I will commit suicide if you send me back to Yugoslavia!" After a night under guard, Martinovic was put on a plane bound for Switzerland. Over St. Quentin, France, he opened a door of the plane, jumped 6,000 feet to his death...
...Band, it ought to commit "The Seafarer" and Eric Coates' "Knightsbridge March" to Vinylite, where people can get at them; they are probably the finest of its new arrangements...
Close friends to Townsend said he had been melancholy since he entered the Army in the spring of 1946, and that he had announced intentions to commit suicide several times. He had occasionally been under the care of a University psychiatrist...
...that life ended, he admitted to his students that the world did not seem so bright to him as it had 43 years before. But, said he, "I don't want anybody to commit suicide over the fate of the world." He wanted his students to remember one thing: "History's continuity is greater and stronger than its changes." For Columbia, history without Carlton Hayes would be a change indeed...