Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel more inclined, however, to sympathize with the "man who dropped the punt" and "Riegels who ran the wrong way". These poor fellows had the bad luck to commit before thousands of spectators sensational blunders which were immediately broadcast country-wide by radio and press. Now, according to Mr. "Possum" Pixlee's plan, on doning their street clothes, with the harrowing details still all too fresh in their minds, they would have to sit down and record on paper the story of their misfortunes for their own future edification...
...Mima working her wiles on a simple forester. The diabolical mechanic who had designed this dynamo was displaying its efficiency to a Satanic investigation committee which sat in the orchestra pit to watch. Mima took the forester away from his wife with waggles of her physique; she made him commit the sins of the calendar and other more intimate ones, as blackmail and pandery. At last, it was the intention of the devil that the forester should show that he had lost even the virtue of mercy by killing Mima for her crimes. The forester refused to do this, restrained...
...Caloca hurled thoroughgoing curses and charged that Señor Calles when President had connived with Luis Morones in stupendous graft. Meanwhile in the Chamber of Deputies Melchor Ortega and Aurelio Manrique had pulled guns on each other, but were overpowered by friends and disarmed before they could commit murder...
...Just as a surgeon does not commit himsa (killing), but practices the purest ahimsa (non-killing) when he wields his knife on his patient's body for the latter's benefit, similarly one may find it necessary ... to go a step further and sever life from the body in the interest of the sufferer...
Senator Moses viewed the Raskob document and said: "I have no recollection of ever having seen any manuscript of that character. I might add, however, that I believe any person who would resort to rifling the mails would not hesitate to commit a forgery...