Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grimy dawn came to a Brooklyn subway station one day last week, police rounded up seven disheveled bums who were sleeping in an empty train. Only one pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct. Nursing the hangover from an all-night party, Maxwell Bodenheim, one of the old breed of Greenwich Village Bohemians, insisted he was only an innocent straphanger. The sick old (61) poet-novelist spent the day in jail before a friend posted $25 bond...
...majesty, which no longer can stir by bold decisions or amaze by feats of derring-do. He made ordinariness shine. Exhausting himself by faithful performance of the tedious ceremonial rounds, exemplifying in his family life a warm blending of affection and rectitude, he gave his people a standard of conduct to rally to. Winston Churchill, paying a last tribute to his sovereign friend, acclaimed a King "so strong in his devotion to the enduring honor of our country, so self-restrained in his judgments of men and affairs; so uplifted above the clash of party politics yet so attentive...
When two of us entered the Graduate School Recreation Room to play ping-pong, we noticed two young teen-agers apparently waiting for a table. After we had played several games we invited them to join in and play doubles. Their conduct was proper in every respect. Before we had completed one game, a Yard cop and a buildings official arrived and bodily removed our youthful opponents. We protested that it was as our guests that they were playing. Because of our protest the Yard cop demanded the name of one of us. We resumed play only to be interrupted...
...Attlee in the House who was called upon to move the vote, describing Butler's proposals as "irrelevant, unnecessary and unfair"-but the language was Bevan's. Then from the crowded back benches Nye Bevan rose amidst a buzz of anticipation to show Leader Attlee how to conduct an Opposition case...
...been no hearing, Eyring declared the dismissal illegal. Thereupon, the board about-faced, held a quick hearing, and fired him again. Eyring still refused to go, kept right on reporting to his office as before. Finally, President Hosford had him arrested for disturbing the peace and for disorderly conduct...