Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seething, and Viet Nam has turned into the nation's longest, least popular war. The heady awareness of opportunity that infects the entire G.O.P. assemblage is a measure of the distance the party has come since the dismal post-Goldwater days. When the Republican Governors met in Denver to conduct a post mortem on the 1964 election, the party was at its nadir. It had lost the presidency by the greatest popular margin in history. The Democrats had swollen 2-to-1 majorities in both the Senate and the House, and 33 of the nation's 50 Governors as well...
...That conduct caused the company to fire 13 of the worst offenders. Last week tension reached a new high and tactics a new low. The Insurance Workers International Union's local in New York happens to belong to the Maritime Port Council, which acts as an umbrella for many small unions. So when 1,000 white-collar pickets gathered outside the Met offices, they were joined out of sympathy by 700 burly dock workers. The sales men and longshoremen marched through the streets chanting the peace demonstrators' slogan, "Hell no, we won't go." In this case...
...into the brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The Jew and Gentile gathered to hear Toscanini conduct Fidelia cling to the illusion that Austria is protected by some ineluctable immunity. But after watching his barber preen in his new National Socialist uniform, and after seeing the troopers take over the best restaurants, Stanley knows that he must get out. He realizes that the society that obsesses...
...Kennedy men to support him is due partly to lingering animosity from the primaries and partly to his essentially passive view of the Presidency. One prominent Kennedyite in search of a new flag had a talk with McCarthy and reported later: "From what he says, he'd turn the conduct of the office over to a committee and go off and read books. That scares the hell...
Married. Peter Edelman, 30, one of the top political brains on the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy's campaign team; and Marian Wright, 29, an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer and first Negro to be admitted to the bar in Mississippi, whom he met last year while helping Kennedy conduct hearings on poverty in the state; he for the second time; in McLean, Va. Edelman wore an off-white Nehru jacket, former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg quoted a little Dickens, and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale's recently convicted antidraft chaplain, read the vows...