Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treachery at Dawn. It lasted for 40 hours. It ended in the way the Russians always knew they could end it: by treachery. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky assured French officials-who made some of the most strenuous protests-of safe conduct for the Germans. Out of the darkness of their rooms, the weary prisoners came into the darkness of night, gratefully breathing the clean air of early morning...
...festival. The Lord Provost, Sir Jon Falconer, liked it. Bing wrung pledges for ?60,000 from Edinburgh merchants, the Art Council of Great Britain and the City of Edinburgh. Then he wrote to Bruno Walter: "If we can get the Vienna Philharmonic to come, will you come to conduct it?" Walter quickly said yes. "After that," says Bing, "it was easy. When artists were diffident, it was only necessary to tell them Bruno Walter was coming...
After that, Henry was not without sympathizers. North Carolina's Governor Gregg Cherry condemned the mob's conduct. President Truman denounced it as "highly un-American." Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, the Dixiecrats' vice presidential candidate, urged all Mississippians to behave. In Greensboro, N.C., Judge E. Earle Rives sentenced two teenage egg-throwers to write over & over: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." The nation's press, including the South's, lectured on the right of free speech...
...Gross Violation." The State Department note rejected three separate Soviet government complaints, which were based, said the note, on misinformation supplied by Jake. "Consul General Lomakin's conduct constitutes an abuse of the prerogatives of his position and a gross violation [of diplomatic standards] ... It is requested that he leave the United States...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled: "The week's pattern is continuing Soviet aggressiveness and continuing Western wariness. Observing the two lines of conduct is like watching a pair of dancers, one of whom is doing a delicate minuet while the other hurls himself into a hot apache number...