Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly six years, oldtimers on the News Leader have been hammering it into me that a "burglary" is "the forcible breaking and entering of a dwelling house in the night time, with intent to commit a felony therein," and I in turn have been hammering it into the cubs. Now comes TIME and undoes a lot of hard work. Some of the newcomers have been waving the Dec. 30 Miscellany column under the copydesk's nose and pointing to the line about "burglars" tunneling into the Clayton (Okla.) State Bank. The persons who swiped those 33,300 pennies were...
...majority in Congress, his efforts had produced few results. With the G.O.P. in the driver's seat he could expect to be even less effective in guiding the Congress. About the best course he could set lay along the line of middle-of-the-road generalities which would commit the Democratic Executive as lightly as possible...
...least, some slight ground for yelling atomic blackmail. Baruch did nothing to improve this atmosphere by harping on "punishments" for atomic violators. "Punishment" is not a diplomatic word, and in the context in which Baruch used it, not a realistic one. (If a nation is immoral enough to commit a major violation, it is probably immoral enough to refuse punishment, whatever its treaty commitments...
...This suggestion would be useful if certain people were thus reminded of 'Thou shalt not kill.' " But the council dropped the suggestion after a member asked: How would the naming system look to a mailman who had to deliver letters to No. 7, Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Street...
...Manhattan's lower Seventh Avenue. It was cold and windy, and he had his face buried in his collar. Above him, on the roof of a 15-story apartment building, Mrs. Natalie Biro, a blonde, 36-year-old radio actress, was getting ready to commit suicide. She had tied her hair in a kerchief, put on slacks (which would not billow in the wind) and pinned her purse to them. Two seconds after she closed her eyes and jumped she landed squarely on the head and shoulders of Alexander Cook, smashing him to the sidewalk, killing herself...