Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western sense. U Nu is tolerant and approving of other "true" religions, e.g., Christianity. He insisted upon paying the expenses of Roman Catholic priests on a recent pilgrimage to Rome; his troops gave the Anglican Bishop of Rangoon, the Right Rev. George West, a safe-conduct across the lines into the rebel Karen districts so that he could administer Communion to the villagers...
...Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that the rider merely outlaws a name, does not cope with overt subversive acts. "What conduct would the Senator make illegal by his amendment?" he asked Humphrey...
...least available to it, was more evidence about McCarthy than any man could read in a lifetime. Fair or foul, McCarthy's record is written plain in transcript upon tons of transcript. What might be painfully difficult is the judgment to be passed on that record. Is his conduct unbecoming a Senator...
...tougher followers drove him half-crazy simply by knowing that he was incapable of being the man he pretended to be. When the Duce tried to conduct the Ethiopian war from his office chair, Marshal Badoglio only growled: "What fool in Rome is telegraphing this rubbish to me?" and curtly cabled back: "Leave me alone...
Then Philosopher Hu Shih turned to K. C. Wu's own conduct in exile. For a scholar who measures his words, his judgment was scathing: "The battle for freedom and democracy has never been fought and won by craven, selfish politicians who remain silent while they enjoy political power, and then, when out of power and safely out of the country, smear their own country and government, for whose every mistake or misdeed they themselves cannot escape a just measure of moral responsibility...