Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nancy Barrow of Manhasset, L. I., has been awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for the member of the class who "by scholarship, conduct and character has shown evidence of the greatest promise...
...York University recently ousted Edwin Berry Burgum, associate professor of English, as "unfit to teach because of conduct unbecoming a teacher." This action followed the professor's refusal to state before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party...
...become . . . Communists, whom it is allegedly the purpose of the oath-demanders to trap, do not hesitate to lie if it serves the . . . party line. Honest men and women, and journals which have built their reputation on their search for truth, refuse to believe that integrity and openness of conduct count for nothing . . . We shall not sign the pledge which he has concocted...
...odyssey in exile, Tom comes back to Paris and finds himself a wife. But boredom draws him into the arms of a mistress, who gives him excitement, trouble and baby Paul in short order, together with an urge to confess his shortcomings: "As for marks . . . zero, zero, zero-in conduct, in morality...
...Northern Moslems, loftily disdain the nimbler-witted Ibos and Yorubas who dominate Southern Nigeria. When Emir Abdullah's decision was announced, Haussa and Fulani alike broke away from their mosque and poured into the Saba N'Gari (Stranger's Quarter), where 60,000 Ibos and Yorubas conduct Kano's retail business. Rioting went on for three days; when it was all over last week, 45 were dead, 200 injured. Speechmaker Akintola was bundled into a government plane and shipped back South, where he promptly indicted his attackers as "victims of imperialism, who have lived so long...