Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive to make the program flexible has raised problems. Without a set program, some teachers feel a bit lost. Many in math are uncertain whether to focus on material directly related to school or to conduct an enrichment program. Since each class ends up learning different things, the program has no continuity from year to year...
When the King asked for "an administrative investigation" of the Aspida plot, the elder Papandreou tried to fire the Defense Minister, who was to conduct the inquiry, and attempted to take over the job himself. In his first big political test a mere 16 months after ascending the throne, King Constantine held firm. He told Papandreou that he would allow any member of the Center Union Party to conduct the investigation but, since it primarily involved Papandreou's son, he would not allow Papandreou to be the final judge of what action to take. Papandreou accused the King of unconstitutional...
...June 1962, Knickerbocker News Reporter Edward Swietnicki wrote a front-page story about a Negro post-office clerk who had been arrested for disorderly conduct and been treated at a hospital for multiple head bruises and other injuries. The clerk claimed police had beaten him at the station. The grand jury opened an investigation, but it soon became apparent that the machine-controlled, overwhelmingly Democratic panel was interested only in investigating Reporter Swietnicki. Questioned for hours on end by District Attorney John Garry II, Swietnicki said at one point that he had discussed his story beforehand with his managing editor...
...less than total victory would be a shameful compromise with the devil--a betrayal of all that is worth while. In his euphoria visions and concepts of the future peace become corrupted both by illusions of virtue and omnipotence addressed to oneself and equally unrealistic punitive aspirations unfortunately the conduct of the war effort, but interferes in the most serious way with any rational approach to the problems of devising a new and durable status quo to take the place of the one that is bound to be destroyed by the great upheaval of the war itself...
...remains my hope that if the Vietnam situation takes a turn that permits us once again to conduct our affairs on the basis of deliberate intention, rather than just yielding ourselves to be ship-sawed by the dynamics of a situation beyond our control, we will take up once more the quest for concept as a basis for national policy...