Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to New York because he had no relatives there. "I wanted to commit sins if I felt like it," he says. He was 20, a hefty, blue-eyed, black-haired youth with $25 in his pocket. He looked up with satisfaction at the "buildings falling all over themselves," but was afraid to get into the subway. Somebody had told him that the trains stopped for only one minute, and he was afraid they would run off and leave him in some hole in the ground...
Dear "Murderer (Rank; Universal-International) is a man who tries to commit the perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...
...committee's bill did not commit Congress to carry out the full four-year, 70-group program. It was simply spending the extra $822 million now to give the Air Force a flying start toward full modernization, to breathe fresh life into the emaciated aircraft industry and keep it healthy in case of need. If the international situation eased, the program could always be cut back. Congress preferred to be on the safe side...
...once faked a foreign accent, pounded on the door and yelled: "Poor lady, your husband has been killed in an automobile accident !" He had also ripped off her pearl choker in a restaurant, she said; complained about her cooking and thrown food in her face; suggested that she commit suicide ("It would be very dramatic. It would end all your troubles and a lot of other women would feel awfully sorry for you"). In rebuttal Morgan told the court: "My wife is a member of the Communist Party, and I personally have seen her membership card ... I have come...
...readily admitted authorship of the recordings of his broadcasts which the prosecution played in court. He acknowledged all the counts against him, and he admitted intent to commit each individual act. "If I had it to do over again," he shouted, "I would do it again . . . They can hang me a thousand times, but I was not a traitor...