Word: commited
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...final heroes climaxed a game in which the lead switched nine times, but the play was as inconsistent as it was exciting. The varsity threw the ball away no fewer than 30 times and in the first 20 minutes managed to commit 15 personal fouls...
...pent-up hostility shows up in far stranger places, e.g., the rock-'n'-roll sects of the Harlem storefront churches where his late father used to preach. Says Baldwin: "Religion operates here as a complete and exquisite fantasy revenge: white people own the earth and commit all manner of abomination and injustice on it; the bad will be punished and the good rewarded, for God is not sleeping, the judgment is not far off ... Bitterness is here neither dead nor sleeping . . . and this is not, as Cabin in the Sky would have us believe, merely a childlike emotional...
...Hughes studiously declined to commit the Administration to tax cuts in 1956. When asked if he had not in effect foreshadowed them by his budget predictions, Hughes replied: "I don't think you can put those words in my mouth, sir. I wish you could...
...feel that anyone who would commit himself to something he does not honestly believe merely for the sake of a few (or even a great many) votes, might do almost anything. Who knows? If he is willing to trade personal belief for votes, he might, if elected, surpass the trading at Yalta. While my vote is not yet for anyone, it is certainly against Stevenson...
...Saint Mary's the Great, official church of Cambridge University, arranged for Billy to use his pulpit. Though regretting CICCU's "exclusive attitude" of noncooperation with other religious bodies, he explained: "We must continue to help them when we can, providing we are not expected to commit intellectual hara-kiri...