Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, it looked as if New Yorkers were in for a slightly tedious, thoroughly respectable campaign for governor this year. On their records Republican Candidate Irving Ives and Democratic Candidate Averell Harriman could be expected to explore the issues with scholarly precision and to conduct themselves with the utmost decorum. Things didn't work out like that; by last week the campaign was not very respectable...
...Jenner complained that the Watkins Committee had ignored "the most important evidence" that the "Communist world conspiracy" is attempting to discredit McCarthy. His analysis seemed to disregard an important fact: the Watkins Committee did not criticize McCarthy for any word or deed against any Communist conspirator, but for his conduct toward established institutions and loyal citizens...
...where the Army of the United States has set foot on a difficult and dangerous road. What in effect is the army saying to men who may be captured in the future? Is it not forcing them to consider two impossible choices: one of a standard of conduct impossibly noble under the terrible circumstances of capture, or the other of death in battle rather than the risk of failing to measure up to such a standard? Such a choice as this is not only hard on morale. It is an immoral one to put up to men facing death...
Will this flow of money from U.S. citizens continue? Said Humphrey: "The prime factor which will determine this is the establishment of confidence in the country seeking investments among investors abroad ... As with individuals, it is best established by a definite course of good conduct...
...unusual task of explaining the basic principles of faith and politics to an innocent girl. The young Queen all but fell in love with him. "Dear Lord M" (as the Queen called him in her diary) could explain anything, from the martial conquest of Canada to the marital conduct of Henry VIII ("Those women bothered him so," he told her). He was always so reassuring about everything. "If you have a bad habit," he said, "the best way to get out of it is to take your fill of it." Complicated matters, such as the monarchical history of Scotland...