Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Milhous Nixon became President-elect of the U.S. by the narrowest of margins-so narrow that it may even impede his conduct of the office. At the beginning of his campaign, Nixon held a seemingly unassailable lead. By the time Illinois' 26 electoral votes put him over the 270 mark, it was clear that his lead had been whittled almost to the vanishing point, and that he had come close to the most bitter defeat of his career...
...after he and a friend won the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for one performance with a bid of $3,100. "I'm going to wrap it all up-have a birthday party for the baby, an open house for the new wing, and I'm going to conduct Happy Birthday." Mrs. Robert Wolfson paid $2,000 for a walk-on part in the TV series, Mission Imposible; St. Louis Globe-Democrat Publisher G. Duncan Bauman bid $2,500 for a Chinese dinner with and by Danny Kaye; and others fought over a chance to play tennis with Jack...
Everett Dirksen ignored the Cook County vote to embrace downstate Republicanism and victory over challenger William Clark, a man who committed political suicide when he broke with Mayor Daley over the conduct of the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...student dialogue is essential to the development of any course, we feel that the use of personalized attacks can serve no useful function and prevents a meaningful exchange of ideas. We fear that such attacks may easily degenerate into meaningless polemics and counter-productive confrontations. Therefore, we find such conduct unacceptable in the pursuit of objective truth. In closing, we wish to express our support of the investigative efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee and urge that, in the future, such pointless attacks as this be avoided by all parties concerned. Clyde Lindsay '69 and 17 other black students
There can be no certain advance test of how a man will conduct the presidency. But educated prophecy is possible on the basis of the candidates' personalities and policies, and indeed even on the basis of their performances on the current campaign trail...