Word: commitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even more alienating than his confidence in the system was the failure of Kennedy to commit himself to any definite political action in the elections...
...refusing to commit himself politically, Kennedy was obviously leaving the options open for his own candidacy...
Other freshmen are considering taking off a semester to enlist in the National Guard, which would commit them to a four to six month tour of duty and later service during summer vacations...
...plan originated last spring in the Subcommittee on Freshman Life of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. It does not commit freshmen to living in any particular House after this year...
...with the authorities anxious to preserve legal forms, an increasingly common punishment for dissenters is confinement to mental hospitals that are often jails in disguise. Technically, Soviet courts cannot sentence a man to prison or labor camp unless he has violated the criminal code. Health officers, however, can commit anyone to "emergency psychiatric hospitalization" if his behavior is simply deemed abnormal. "Why bother with political trials," a leading Soviet forensic psychiatrist reportedly has said, "when we have psychiatric clinics...