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Sensitive to this, and not yet feeling any searing breath on his neck, Stevenson and his advisers looked for a compromise which would advance the probability that he would run and yet not definitely commit him. They found...
...opposite extreme were Croker and Murphy. At a Fourth of July celebration, a reporter noted that Murphy did not join in the singing of The Star-Spangled Banner. The newsman turned to a Tammany official and asked why. "Perhaps," came the reply, "he didn't want to commit himself." Croker, when asked to comment on free silver, the hottest political question of the day, merely growled: "I'm in favor of all kinds of money-the more the better...
...holds that its pledge to uphold the U.N. Charter is sufficient guarantee that the West will not commit aggression to liberate the satellites...
...Apostle Church in Linden, N.J. No retailer in Father Varga's parish has so far turned the tagging committee away, though many have managed to keep their enthusiasm within bounds. "Of course we let them tag the dresses," said one Linden shopkeeper. "What are we going to do - commit business suicide? This is a 65% Catholic community." But one buyer in a large Manhattan department store declared that "some of [the Marilyke dresses] are so cute we've put them in the Junior Department." Marilyke crusaders concentrate on evening dresses and bridal gowns; swimming suits are too unforeseeable...
...world's greatest evil, says the booklet, is not Communism but violence. "The basic reason for our failure lies in the nature of our present commitment to violence . . . It is now impossible for a great nation to commit itself both to military preparedness and to carrying forward a constructive and positive program of peacemaking...