Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a cheery smile and a pat on the back for everyone, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson returned from a 16-day tour of Europe last week to defend his conduct of office. He was the storm center of a mounting uproar from the farmlands that worried the Republicans and encouraged the Democrats to predict a "green uprising" in their favor in next year's elections. Minnesota's Democratic Governor Orville Freeman struck his party's keynote when he said that the Eisenhower Administration considered farming to be a stepchild of little importance in an otherwise...
...never take a man and see how much he can stand," said McKenzie, a German P.O.W. for 14 months in World War II. "We do not degrade students. We try to teach them by demonstration what to expect if captured, and how to conduct themselves to evade punishment...
...Iron Curtain and rolled out the Welcome reception became. During an interview with Soviet Commissars Georgy Malenkov and Lazar Kaganovich. Malone enthusiastically toastedco-existence, and then impetuously offered the Russians a Senate report on strategic minerals in the Western hemisphere a report they already had. Malone's conduct puzzled his friends at home. Wrote New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell: "If Molly has been softened up in Moscow, is it safe to let any of our legislators visit the Soviet Union?" "You're Uncultured!" While Malone and Ellender hogged the limelight, other traveling Americans...
...Adenauer has expressed his desire to conduct the negotiations in a spirit of complete frankness," said Bulganin. "We would like to do the same thing." He repeated Russia's insistence that German membership in the Western alliance had created an "obstacle" to reunification. And as for the prisoners still held in Russia, "there is a definite misunderstanding. There are no German prisoners of war . . . only war criminals from the former Hitlerite army . . . 9,626 such people...
Catherine learned to preserve her own susceptible skin through "meticulous honesty and good will." Her maxim: "Behave so that the kind love you. the evil fear you, and all respect you." Of her conduct during those years, she writes: "I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman with a mind much more male than female...