Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legion's unofficial comportment was sober, its official conduct was the most irresponsible in years. After voting resolutions favoring U.M.T. a veto-less U.N., and public housing for veterans, the delegates kicked over the traces...
...when there were only four? And if not, is something real being sacrificed for benefits that it would be hard to define?" The Economist concluded: "The old safe world in which the 'loose connection' flourished no longer exists, and unless the Commonwealth revises the standard of conduct and cooperation which it expects from its members it will become merely a sentimental fiction. There is no virtue in mere size-'the larger the assembly of sheep, the more it appeals to the wolves.' A sprawling collection of nations with no common obligations, with no coordinated line...
Committees are the actual workhorses of the Council. They handle polls, conduct investigations, mull over their findings, and finally write detailed reports on the issue involved. They perform what Dean Bender has called the most important functions of the Council; deliberation and recommendation. Some of their proposals have in the words of the Dean, been "extraordinarily significant...
Mary Manning Howe will direct, and Martha Nichols '50 is designing the sets for the show. Nicholas van Slyck 1G, director of the Harvard Chamber Music Orchestra, will compose and conduct the music...
...gentleman from Texas, who coyly termed himself "president of the House Demagogues Club," assumed his responsibilities in no uncertain fashion. During the next seven years, he kept himself splattered over the front pages, got into ruckuses with everybody from Walter Winchell to Mrs. Roosevelt, and set a pattern of conduct followed faithfully by his successors...