Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko refused to commit his government to a proposal of the United States and Britain for a broad scientific study of the technical problems involved in any suspension...
...time in Canton, Shanghai, Manchuria. Repeatedly jailed, he was a top underground leader in the harsh 1927 fighting in Shanghai between the Communist labor unions and Chiang Kaishek, described in André Malraux's novel Man's Fate. Liu's first wife reportedly tried to commit suicide at the party's underground headquarters, and he hired a ricksha to take her to the doctor. When criticized for not ordering a taxi in such an emergency, Liu, true to his doctrinaire code, coldly replied that it might have drawn the attention of the police and endangered...
...chosen as a volunteer for space missions? Why can't I be an anarchist, blowing up airplanes, factories, and like that, and asserting my individualism?" In short, one must "come to grips" with "basic existence" and master reality through the Ideal. "Why can't I commit myself and become a non-conformist?" still remains the fundamental question of our sham existence...
...choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress about whether the U.S. should commit itself flatly in advance to accept the decision of the Puerto Rican electorate...
...Although the proposal is certainly worth exploration, it is too early to commit ourselves definitely," commented Frederic G. Fassett, Jr., Dean of Residence at M.I.T. The Off Campus Housing Bureau, which operates a listing service of available housing for Tech students, will not give up its functions in favor of a central agency until the new group can prove its merit, he explained...