Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupies as chairman of the powerful Assembly Finance Committee. Sitting stiffly upright at his desk, with scarcely a crease in his double-breasted waistcoat, he wrote out in longhand a set of proposals for reforming the French constitution to enable ministers to stay in office long enough to conduct responsible government. Although he himself had voted against the Mendès-France government, and thus helped bring on its collapse, he told a press conference that this 20th ministerial crisis in ten years was a blow to France's vital interests...
...game, the Rocket went to a Montreal hospital to be patched up. Then he appeared at National Hockey League headquarters to explain his conduct to President Clarence Campbell. This time, Campbell decided, a fine was not punishment enough for the man who holds the record for fines paid in the N.H.L. He suspended the Rocket for the rest of the season, forbade him to play in the Stanley Cup Games as well...
...Corballis will not point out any "special sweetheart," among her hundreds of "gorgeous boys." Proudly she tells of their conduct when the University exchanged the square, muddy brown trays for the new circular platters. Although complaining that the new trays were too shallow, the freshmen never uttered a swear word, she says, not even a "damn." "These boys are gentlemen through and through." Also, she guessed, "they must like the food for they never complain, and most of them return for more dessert; except the Rockefeller and Roosevelt type," she philosophized, "they must be satisfied, or else eat again afterwards...
...compassion for the nation's historians is both surprising and suspicious. The publication of the Yalta documents, however, contributes little to the cause of history-writing. And it adds even less to the United states standing in the world and to the confidence that Americans can have in the conduct of their foreign affairs...
...perilous period of history, he Department's action has cast serious doubt on the United States' ability to conduct its foreign relations with maturity and rationality. Publication of the Yalta documents at this time was had in motive, in execution, in implications, and above all, in principle. The State Department--and the nation cannot afford many more such blunders...