Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...eight students who turned down in this year's sophomore class, chose instead to enter the Freshman seminar Program. According to Wilcox, the other three deferred either because they wanted a year of General Education of because they did not wish to commit themselves to a field of concentration...
Bayar had tried to commit suicide "to save the family honor," explained a member of the 38-man ruling junta. "He wanted to go down in history other than as a condemned criminal...
Even if the spread of nuclear weapons does not bring about a blundering or accidental catastrophe, reliance upon nuclear deterrence creates a moral climate that is plainly corrupting, for it inevitably tends to commit us and our opponents to policies which may condemn the unborn and the non-belligerents to extermination. By mutual provocation and propaganda, military personnel on both sides acquire the power to effect the moral climate of our time, to project their ethic on the whole of life as it has developed on earth...
...isolationism," though what Washington advised, and what most Americans wanted, was not isolation but avoidance of permanent entanglements that might drag the U.S. into alien quarrels or impair its sovereignty. Cabot Lodge, before World War II, outspokenly shared that viewpoint. He fought most of F.D.R.'s attempts to commit the U.S. to the allied side, though he backed Roosevelt's big defense budgets...
...Communist Party and since 1949 East Germany's first President; of a heart attack; in East Berlin. A survival artist who deserted the Kaiser's army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World War II. Coming back with the Red troops...