Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ringside seat from which to observe a demonstration of basic guts by a group of U.S. marines fresh out of boot camp. Sergeant McKeon may have shown poor judgment, but that's not sufficient reason for busting an obviously dedicated man out of the Corps with a bad-conduct discharge...
...Corps would certainly give him his just punishment. The Corps still had a chance to prove itself. Then came the disgraceful verdict. Such a hue and cry about the poor Sergeant! Isn't the drunken, sadistic murder of six supposedly superior youngsters-isn't that bad conduct...
...come to a complete halt. We have seen a halt in the world's drift toward nuclear war . . . We have seen dangers in their most awful forms lessen rather than grow . . . challenges met instead of evaded. We have seen, in great part as a result of our own conduct, the leaders of world Communism forced to renounce some of their old ways...
From his home at Havre de Grace, Md., Tydings announced this week that the state of his health made it "impossible for me to conduct a vigorous campaign." He withdrew from the Senate race...
Giveaways, Grab & Greed. Clement bowled alliterative strikes on the Republicans in all alleys. He attacked Ike's haphazard conduct of foreign affairs "while Foster fiddles, fritters, frets and flits." He accused the Administration of "corruption in high places, involving an unprecedented spree of giveaways, grab and greed." He said U.S. agriculture had been "devitaminized by the G.O.P. and Bensonized by Ezra B.," and he called out to the farmer: "Come on home before it's too late. Your lands are studded with the white skulls and crossbones of broken Republican promises...