Word: committed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...will join us in that ... If any appeasement is needed, I would say that the British could make a very excellent gesture by offering Hong Kong to the Communists . . . I've been an interventionist for the last 20 years, but I think it will be very difficult to commit the U.S. to the land defense of continental Europe unless the other nations help us in the Far East...
...morally justified to take defensive measures proportionate to the danger. That would mean use of the atomic bomb, as no power would launch a surprise attack on the United States without an adequate supply of atomic bombs . . . Neither reason nor theology nor morals requires men or nations to commit suicide by requiring that we must await the first blow...
...ignorant and proud. The old man sells his orchard to his neighbor, Fonse (Henri Poupon), then pulls a gun when he sees Fonse uprooting precious trees. When the village priest forces a compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into a sickbed. Though Pagnol's film technique is static, his grasp of character and locale makes for a human film that is, by turns, uproarious and more than a little...
...Still at large in New Zealand last week was Convict Cecil Gurr Otto who also escaped duress by walking out of a hospital. Two years ago Otto had murdered a woman, and in remorse tried to commit suicide. He succeeded only in blowing half his face away. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, Otto was sent to a hospital near Christchurch for plastic surgery. Authorities put him on his honor not to escape. Last fortnight, equipped with new, nearly healed features, he simply walked out of the hospital. New Zealand police admitted that recapture would be difficult. The only...
...adhesive tape, then gallop up & down Municipal Stadium for some six miles before 100,000 witnesses who will hardly even notice him. The fans will be watching the Army-Navy game and the four stripe-shirted officials will be just mobile scenery, chiefly worth attention only if they commit bloopers or get knocked down and run over by a power play...