Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...time the union delegates gathered last week on the Isle of Man, union after Tinion had voted to commit them selves to unilateral nuclear disarmament...
Actress Kohner is a young woman with excellent teeth who plays Hamilton's sister. Her lines run to such glass-crackers as "ah had to convince Mother that ah would commit man very own suicide if ah didn't have man way." Eventually she tries suicide her very own way, and the script implies that her parents are largely to blame. In fact, the film is very severe with parents; all the brats have culpable elders...
Belgium messed up her attempt at Empire. After systematically looting that unhappy land for 80 years was she honestly surprised at the outburst of hatred against her? To commit the indecency of shamelessly abandoning the Congo to chaos only to return a week later in the guise of cop appears to me typical of the hypocrisy that now seems the accepted hallmark of international diplomacy. I am not impressed...
...publishers commit non-books, but some do it more than others. One of the most persistent is Bernard Geis, who operates as a kind of non-publisher, distributing his wares through Bennett Cerf's Random House, and setting up shop to promote non-books, including those of backers Art Linkletter (The Secret World of Kids) and Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me). Says Geis: "I want to do anything that can be done to get the audience back to books." Then he adds, less piously: "I don't care what kind of book...
...attempting a great bluff, very likely would be willing to settle in the end for a semi-autonomous status in a Congo confederation. But he had one strong card. Hammarskjold's mandate from the U.N. members who had sent troops to the Congo did not permit him to commit the U.N. "army" to battle-or even to a jungle skirmish. For hours after hearing Bunche's report, Dag pondered the strength of Tshombe's hand. At last, barely six hours before the first contingent was due to take off, Hammarskjold canceled orders for U.N. troops to enter...