Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life imprisonment], the main consideration being that none of the eight men found guilty initiated the order, but all acted as instruments in transmitting and implementing it." But the judgment added, it is Israeli criminal law, inherited from the British, that an Israeli soldier must disregard an order to commit a "manifestly unlawful" act-one so monstrous that "it blinded the eyes and stabbed at the heart" of the "average" person...
...there is a similar lack of activity but it is because politics is so integrally related to campus and career. Several university students state that they did not want to endanger their scholarship standing by being vocal supporters of any one political party. Moreover, federal and regional scholarship terms commit them to five years' employment in a government department after graduation, and incipient civil servants are wise to avoid entangling alliances with parties. They are expected to be apart from such things...
...general still did not commit himself on Algeria's ultimate political status: "I believe it would be completely useless to petrify in advance in words something which our enterprise itself will outline," he said. But he made it abundantly clear that the day of European privilege in Algeria was ending. "In two months," he said, "Algeria will elect her representatives under the same conditions as Metropolitan France. It will be necessary that at least two-thirds of her representatives be Moslem citizens...
...neighbor to this orgy, Bogard realizes that to help the girl he must commit himself, for once, to action--the moral crux of the book. To call the Yard Cops is outside "the code," and in trying to break up the festivities himself he is discouragingly slammed around. Finally, he and a med-school friend put the girl into some kind of shape and send her home. Bogard is called before the deans to answer for his failure to notify the police. But because he tried to help the comatose slut, Bogard is not expelled, but allowed to resign...
...medicine. Radio constantly fingers patients who need hospitalization, gets doctors out fast to the bush by plane. Alerted by radio last month, Fairbanks' Dr. Jean Persons, a minister's thirtyish daughter who has braved many a stormy night flight, rushed to a man who had tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chin. She landed in time to stop the blood, took him back for plastic surgery...