Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentina's future, the Radicals are now split into two camps, one led by onetime President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear favoring cooperation with the Conservatives. Even Radicals are beginning to fear that unless Argentina ends the political strife which has weakened her for two generations, she will commit national harakiri...
Things are looking up at the Tech boathouse this year, and although Moch won't commit himself one way or the other, most people feel that the M.I.T. navy has a better chance of springing an upset when it meets the Crimson than any other in recent history...
...Turks, kept the pot of Balkan independence boiling. In World War I the Serbian Chetniks circulated behind the enemy's lines, blew up bridges, destroyed communications, fanned revolts among Austria-Hungary's Balkan minorities. Denied the rights of soldiers, they were shot on sight, usually preferred to commit suicide rather than let the enemy kill them...
Significance of this action was far greater than the average U.S. citizen realized. In its efforts to get a common foreign policy with Latin America the U.S. has been hampered by Latin America's jealously guarded sense of independence. Latin-American countries will not commit themselves in advance to follow U.S. policy; and the U.S., jealous in turn of its recently acquired reputation for respecting the Latin-American countries' independence, will not ask them to. Hence the U.S. had not known how far Latin America would go in following the new activist U.S. policy. Last week it found...
...that Playwright Hellman writes. But even intense garrulity does not make the play move. Then in the last act the stage takes fire with the struggle between the German and Rumanian, with Paul Lukas' remarkable portrayal of the German sadly, sensitively explaining why he has been willing to commit murder, why he is determined to martyr himself, if need be, for the anti-Nazi cause. In this scene Lukas certainly gives one of the great performances of recent years. Veteran Actress Lucile Watson is excellent as Lukas' American mother-in-law, whose head has been spinning around...