Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found absolutely no criticism of the grand strategy or the conduct of the war, although there is plenty of it about the conduct of the home front...
...Green bill, the more it seemed to tick like a bomb. Several members struggled courageously to extract the fuse. Finally, at week's end, the whole infernal-looking thing was thrown out. In its place, the Senate passed what amounted to a pious resolution: let the individual states conduct elections, as always. Let them arrange for their own absentee soldiers to vote. (This arrangement, followed in the 1942 elections, was a dismal flop...
...Responsible : "What he does today will become an example for those in the generations to follow. . . . When the petty politicians join hands to defame or injure him, his life may be threatened, but the course of his conduct may not be changed. Although he lives in danger, his soul remains his own, and even then he does not forget the sufferings of the people...
...Generous and mentally at ease: "He cultivates his conduct without cease and in his private life he does not abandon himself. When he is successful, he does not depart from the truth. In his personal manners he values living in peace and harmony with others. . . . He admires those cleverer than himself and is generous toward the masses and is flexible in principle...
Sorokin advocates a four-point program for lasting peace, starting with a "reintegration of basic values so as to terminate the existing 'anomie.'" His second point was the necessity for "universalizing the basic norms of conduct," after which he added international authority and the limiting of the powers of states to make...