Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring up the military catastrophe of Pearl Harbor nor the scientific catastrophe of losing our atomic secrets. Nor do we need to dwell on policies that led to the Red invasion of Korea, nor the plight of our defenses when the invasion began, nor the handcuffs put upon our conduct of that war. We need not even refer to the tragic loss of China, nor the surrender of positions of freedom throughout the world. We can also ignore at the moment the wasteful and crippling defense planning between World War II and the following war [Korea] they couldn...
...unravel fabrics of suspicion, deceit, envy, love and hatred without getting the strands into a seemingly unmanageable snarl. His fine hunting scenes create a nostalgia for a vanishing side of U.S. life, and the crash of Theron Hunnicutt's ideals marks the passing of a Southern code of conduct. A book that a bit too plainly shows the sweat of honest labor, Home from the Hill is still a first novel that begins where most "promising" ones leave...
...knack for not getting along with people. In 1950 he was asked to leave the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor after an assault-and-battery charge against him (the verdict: not guilty). That same year he was asked to leave St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac "for conduct unbecoming a physician...
Safe Counsel will be particularly valuable to those who look back nostalgically to the golden age of universal morality. For those adrift on the sea of relativism and naturalism, Safe Counsel is a Gibraltar of immutable rules of conduct...
...that no one could decide whether the five-finger exercises with which it ended were an attempt at wit or merely a concession to Maxim's halting progress. But Bernstein piled through the piece just as if it all meant something, looking up from the keyboard occasionally to conduct his orchestra...