Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheesecake-and-scandal diet, it now commands respect from its contemporaries for its enterprise and alertness. Equally respected is Captain Patterson, who distinguished himself in combat in World War I, has espoused many a liberal cause. But his pre-Pearl Harbor isolationism and editorial changes of pace on the conduct of the war have prompted many to tar him with the same brush as Colonel McCormick...
...clearly seen that to compete successfully with the Western powers they must hire Westerners as teachers. German officers came to train the army, British and American sailors to train the navy, and a mixture of many nationals to teach foreign languages and sciences, to advise on administration and the conduct of foreign relations, "to assist in changing the nation from a confusion of medieval feudal baronies to a united modern state." Moore came to them with no special training beyond his 20 years as a newspaper correspondent in Europe and the East. "I am an authority on general information...
...peep horns, bobbed from one brassy note to another, burping warnings. The German Elite Guards with "new arms" had marched through Paris in "a westerly direction." An invasion of Europe was "bound to have disastrous results for the U.S. and England. It threatens dire calamity to the Anglo-American conduct of the war." In Vichyfrance, Pierre Laval chimed in, proclaimed to Frenchmen that any aid to invaders would be drastically dealt with...
...Gallup popularity rating in Britain last week was 78%, a drop of eight points from just before Tobruk, now precisely the same as President Roosevelt's in the U.S. Only 41% of Britain's polled subjects approve the Government's conduct of the war, 42% disapprove. Sixty per cent want a second front in 1942; 12% think it should not be tried...
...British are often more reserved in conduct than we. If Britons sit in trains or busses without striking up a conversation with you, it doesn't mean they are being haughty and unfriendly. They don't speak to you because they don't want to appear intrusive or rude." (Says the Guide's British counterpart, prepared by Journalist Sir Willmott Lewis for R.A.F. cadets training in the U.S.: "Fellow travelers are by that very fact acquaintances in the States. It will not be resented if you get into conversations without any preliminary maneuvers...