Word: commited
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Haines will not commit himself on his "second" and "third" boats, but calls them "just two other crews." He does not plan to name the junior varsity eight until after time trials late this week...
...pansy bring about the downfall of the socially ambitious wife of a university professor. In a winsome domestic scene from A Visit in Bad Taste, a man newly released from prison, where he has done time for a sexual offense against a child, is encouraged by his sister to commit suicide. In Raspberry Jam, a little boy goes to tea with two old ladies, both of them drunks and one a nymphomaniac; they get him tipsy, and after telling him about an Italian lover she once bought, the nymphomaniac plucks and disembowels a live bullfinch under the child...
...preach until the congregation asks him to. He usually asks that they gain bunya by agreeing (for one day, not for life) to obey five commandments: 1) thou shalt not kill anything, not even the mosquito that bites you, 2) nor steal, 3) nor lie, 4) nor commit adultery, 5) nor take intoxicating drinks. Many Siamese strike a balance between bunya and bapa by agreeing to observe commandments 4 and 5 only on alternate days...
...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...