Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no way that the President of the U.S. and the American people can conduct a dialogue on the political subject uppermost in the minds of both. Dwight Eisenhower knows this. "I could devoutly wish," he said last week, "that there were some method by which the American people could, under the circumstances, point out the path of my true duty. But it appears that this is a question that first I alone must answer...
...this is not only of peculiar fascination to an age that has witnessed the revival of atrocity. Such conduct is what - in the absence of Shakespearean remorse or classical retribution - psychologically weights the play's later episodes. Tamburlaine is one who, having achieved enormous power, but must almost maniacally assert it: his is no self-preserving ruthlessness or vengeful rancor, but an ego-driven, gratuitous cruelty...
...Sears, Roebuck Chairman Theodore V. Houser, who should know what he is talking about because two-fifths of Sears's immense sales are "on time," saw no cause for alarm. Opposing any direct federal controls, at present, Houser said: "The vast majority of people conduct their affairs with prudence. When the ratio of credit extended exceeds the rate of repayment by from 2% to 2.5% of disposable income, a correction occurs on the part of the consumer. Indications are good that a turn downward in the growth of consumer debt is under way right...
...Melish out. Melish partisans had countered by tearing off one of the locks. At the 11 o'clock service, the second minister, who had been sent by Bishop De Wolfe, retreated when it became apparent that most of the congregation was following the Rev. Mr. Melish's conduct of the service. The reason that many parishioners back Melish is that they resent the bishop's actions as "High Church" interference...
...contracting officials and inspectors," said the subcommittee in its official report on the hearings, Lev "delivered defective material to the armed forces and made improper profits at the expense of the Government. His testimony was evasive and in a large part obviously false and untrue. By his reprehensible, amoral conduct, he corrupted and induced Government officials to betray their public trust...