Word: conducting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Independent postmen pick up the mail, sort it at central clearinghouses, truck it to delivery routes. Then white-uniformed, bonded carriers trudge to each house, put the mail in plastic bags, which are hung on doorknobs (nobody but a U.S. postman is allowed to place anything in mailboxes). Supervisors conduct frequent checks to make sure that carriers do not resort to dumping circulars in convenient garbage cans -a constant temptation for carriers who get paid on the basis of how much they deliver...
...cancer; in Moscow. A Pole by birth, a Communist and Russian by inclination, Rokossovsky commanded 1,000,000 men at one point, and though his losses were staggering, inflicted such casualties on the Wehrmacht that the entire course of the war was changed. Somewhat less glorious was his conduct in August 1944, when, under Stalin's orders, he refused aid to the embattled Poles during the Warsaw uprising, stood blandly by while the Germans destroyed much of the city...
...vain, too, do they declare their loyalty to NATO; their assurances are spurned . . . The Norwegians are summoned to explain their conduct before a jury composed of such loyalists as Mr. Wilson and Herr Kiesinger. They reply by inviting President Johnson; he insists on a meeting with the entire Norwegian cabinet, known to contain some men open to pressure. Meanwhile, American soldiers stay in Norway for weeks after joint maneuvers are over. The world waits to see if the Marines will move...
...progressed to the point where he can knock out a few croquet games each day, bat a pingpong ball around, and play with his six-month-old son, Hosea-Che. Within a few months he ought to be healthy enough to return home to face a series of disorderly-conduct charges picked up during his brief but bombastic career as a revolutionary...
...long weekends early Friday afternoon and leave instructions with secretaries to cover up for them. "The empty executive suites irk a lot of people," reported the paper. "An increasing number of businessmen are complaining that so many executives disappear on Friday afternoons that it is impossible to conduct any business...