Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...freedom of movement and requires no assurances of love from a man." Love is another target: "It's tied up with a sense of dependency, and we cling to it. Those individuals who are today defined as women must eradicate their own definition. In a sense, women must commit suicide." Few of the women's groups will go quite that...
...black youths, allegedly gang members, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Police claimed that it was a deliberate ambush by the gang. Lieut. Aurelio Garcia termed the gang "money-hungry leeches, bloodsuckers of the community." Gang members protested that they believed in nonviolence and that recent shootings in the area were incited by police as part of a campaign to destroy the gang...
...person cannot commit suicide when and where he wants in an impulsive moment," says Shneidman, "he might just say the hell with it." At a meeting last week, the board accepted Shneidman's proposal to consider installing a physical barrier against would-be jumpers...
What a Show! Let a god or a human deliberately court hell, commit Evil, yet the laws of Contrast! as binding as death-and birth, contrast'll come to him and deliverance from whatever state he happens to be in! Let a feller act Evil, and, on the top, enjoy himself, and deliverance will come to him, in contrast to his acting and feeling...
...September a group of foreign correspondents burst into his home unexpectedly. At the sight of the newsmen, who were dressed in Army uniforms, Tojo immediately told his wife to flee out the back door. After exhaling another Hai, she did. Then Tojo, perhaps to save his honor, tried to commit suicide with a revolver but he only managed to wound himself. Mrs. Tojo, disobeying the command of her husband for the first time in her life, crept back to the house to watch as American MPs came to carry her bleeding husband away...