Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alami allows his boys to run their own life. Each house of ten students elects its own leader, who takes a seat on the Boystown ruling council. The boys tend their own gardens, conduct their own religious services. Each noon, a young voice rings out the muezzin's summons to devotions. Then the orphans bow in prayer, including always the words: "And Thy blessings on our loved ones who are dead...
...restrict the making of U.S. domestic law by international treaty. Earnest Lawyer Bricker argues that his amendment would plug "a dangerous constitutional loophole." Members of President Eisenhower's Cabinet argue that it would "damage [the] balance of power" between Congress and the President and "completely hamstring" the conduct of foreign relations, and Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley calls the amendment "the most dangerous thing that has ever been brought before Congress." But 44 other Republican Senators (and 19 Democratic Senators) agreed to cosponsor the Bricker Amendment. Several state bar associations have endorsed it, but the New York State...
...first part of Section 3 of the Bricker Amendment would cut deep into the President's constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations. The executive branch now makes an average of 100 agreements a day in the NATO setup alone. If Congress started "regulating" that process, the U.S. would get no international business done...
...House of Lords, but he is also of the oak when principle is involved. Principle No. 1 is that Britain is not to be pushed around (his speech on the "scuttle" of Abadan was the most violent of all); principle No. 2 is that Britain's international conduct should be moral. Salisbury, the aristocrat, is aloofly superior to any cynical bargain, be it with Moscow or Peking, even when Churchill, the politician...
When the first British reinforcements arrived in beleaguered Pusan, many Americans thought so. Their confidence waned as the U.S. and its allies fell out over the conduct of the war. The first squall arose when Douglas MacArthur wanted U.N. authority for crossing the 38th parallel in pursuit of the North Koreans. In studiedly vague language, the General Assembly authorized the Eighth Army to "insure stability in Korea," and bring about "a unified, independent and democratic government." The vote was 47-5 (the Russian bloc), but India and six other Asian and Arab nations parted company with the U.S., because...