Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good Jew travel in a commercial airplane on Saturday? Does he commit a sin if, on the Sabbath, he opens the door of an electric refrigerator in which a light automatically switches on? (According to the Law of Moses, no Jew may make a fire on the Sabbath. Good Jewish families get their ovens warm before the Sabbath begins and, because electricity is considered as fire, turn on whatever lights will be needed next...
...Instead of promising Europe more guns with which to commit suicide, instead of making promises to join in the destruction of civilization, it would be far more intelligent for us to bring to them the means of salvation in the form of an absolute gift. . . ." Planner Neylan pictured the world shock which such a gesture would deliver, how all hands would drop their guns to scramble for the money...
WASHINGTON -- The Democratic Party will commit political suicide if it abandons the policies that brought it into power, President Roosevelt said tonight in a letter read at a Junior Jackson Day Dinner given by the Young Democratic Clubs of the District of Columbia...
...sell his chemist's shop and escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee Author Kesten, and decides not to commit suicide but to sit in judgment on "all the smug, indifferent people on earth...
...Americans love our land as much as Herr Schöttle [TIME, March 20] loves his but we do not have to commit harakiri or rob, degrade and enslave one part of a people in order that the other part may exist...