Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiskey, found that he held a reserve commission in the Army, had him called up and sent to duty on the Canol project in the Yukon, where "he counted underwear." The committee recommended that Hiskey, his exwife, Marcia, Chapin, and the missing Adams be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit espionage...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who commit murder just for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
...There is such a thing as being too unwilling to commit oneself to a course of action. But it is my own conviction that for every man in a position of responsibility today who sins because of his over-judicious approach, there are nine who are neither helping themselves nor the nation by accepting slogans as realities and jumping at conclusions...
...handmade at Harvard. In 1850, speaking of Professor John White Webster, who was convicted and hanged, Harvard's President Jared Sparks said: "Our professors do not often commit murder...
Perverse Innocence. In 1928, Evelyn (pronounced Evil in) Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with raw) leaped, like a literary commando, out of nowhere and, establishing a beachhead in that dismal waste land which Poet T. S. Eliot had charted six years before, began to commit merry mayhem on the comic muse...