Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presented Freedom House's first annual award for service to freedom to Pundit Walter Lippmann. In a speech he urged more general discussion of foreign policy, warning that the subject is too important "for us blindly to delegate its conduct to a few specialists...
...weeks earlier another transport, the Gladen, had been lost in much the same way. Swedish airline officials suspended service to England, planned to ask for guarantees of safe conduct. The Government was expected to issue an official protest. But the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda urged the only technique that has ever been known to work with Nazis: get tough and halt the flying of German courier planes over Swedish territory...
...Little Sister Nancy. Nancy "didn't bother much with the customary rules for the conduct of human beings," slept winter and summer clad in her raccoon coat...
...President can affect or control legislation, partly through his power as a party head with patronage to dispense, and partly by exercise of the veto. In brief, there are checks and balances within the tripartite system of checks and balances. A President can have his way in the conduct of foreign affairs up to a point. But he must always worry about the jealousy of the U.S. Senate, which has the ultimate power in the making of treaties...
...most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against me three times, maybe four times. He . . . He . . ." Caruso was tried for disorderly conduct before an adoring throng in a Yorkville court, found guilty and fined...