Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taciturn interrogator with the clear blue eyes asked them questions about their taxes and net worth, their health, and about their personal lives. He had picked up information that one of the men had an undisciplined temper, that another was a poor manager, that still another's personal conduct was questionable. Kirbo carefully raised all such subjects, listened to the answers, and at week's end reported back to Carter...
...archfiend among these politicians was Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who used his committee chairmanship to conduct a campaign of terror and slander, before which even President Eisenhower buckled. Early in 1950 McCarthy waved in his hand a piece of paper that he claimed bore the names of 205 Communists knowingly employed by the State Department (the Communists were as real as the Salem witches). And it was only after the 1954 elections that he was at last brought low and formally censured by the Senate. Thus it is that McCarthyism (a word coined by cartoonist Herblock) has become the dictionary...
...financé, Mark Lewis, 22, a senior from Las Vegas-went to bed in her dorm room. Most colleges officially frown on student sex on campus but handle the matter by looking the other way. Not so the Merchant Marine Academy, which classifies copulation in the barracks as conduct unbecoming and worthy of dismissal...
...them to feel the necessity of returning to their duty." He quoted to North with approval the opinion of Major General Frederick Haldimand, one of the government's leading experts on America, that "nothing but force can bring them to reason ... and till they have suffered for their conduct, it would be dangerous to give ear to any propositions they might transmit...
...going on there, as always, is the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood under the supervision of Seiji Ozawa, and the program for this summer looks particularly good. For $3.50, you can guarantee yourself a spot on the lawn for a picnic and listen to, on July 18 for example, Ozawa conduct an all-Haydn program. Access is easy--exit 1 on the Mass Pike, and buses from Boston...