Word: commitement
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...Rumanian commoner (denied at Bucharest) attracted considerable attention. His father confined him for 75 days for a breach of military discipline which was popularly supposed to have been his marriage. Subsequently, so rumor went, he was forced to divorce his bride, having previously attempted to renounce the throne and commit suicide...
Business continues to look to the stockmarket for clues of business prospects for the remainder of the year. But the stockmarket refuses to commit itself...
...characters seem the metaphorical figures of the essay rather than the working, laughing children of life. His hero is an indecisive creature who turns radical in politics, finds that radicalism has caused his wife to commit suicide, finally follows suit. Rebecca West is the woman he loves, the woman who has sowed in his wife's mind the seeds of her decision to die. Rebecca jumps into the mill-race with the hero...
...Keynes, Economist: "It is too late to turn back and we must now commit ourselves, with the best face we can, to . . . a gamble which may have a more than even chance of partial success. Nevertheless, most people now . . . sincerely wish that they had not talked so much about the blessings of hurrying back to par. It is in this chastened mood that the British public will submit their necks once more to the golden yoke-as a prelude, perhaps, to throwing it off forever at not a distant date...
...would be foolish to say that criminals are never insane, for their very careers suggest that they have not minds of normal balance. But there is a great difference between temporary derangement and complete mental disorder. Men with the cleverness to commit crimes and then put on sufficient cunning to evade the demands of justice can hardly be adjudged insane in the ordinary sense of the term. The Lone Wolf has tried his wiles and failed. A Daniel sat in judgment over him. Such a decision is important in reestablishing the power...