Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders of France or don't-let-it-get-you-down advice and encouragement. German officials anxious to get refugees back home in time to take care of the harvest, organized transportation and even supplied vehicles. Young Nazi soldiers were so ultra polite that Parisians saw in their conduct an implied criticism of their own customary rudeness. French authorities ordered the destruction of abandoned pets to prevent hydrophobia. Food shortage became acute and decrees restricting the use of flour for pastry, and forbidding the serving of butter in restaurants were issued. Money was scarce as banks remained closed...
...Congress' anxiety to forget about the destruction of democracy in Europe, one tenuous connection was allowed to continue. At sea was the Red Cross "mercy ship" McKeesport, which had started out for Bordeaux, heading straight into a combat zone without the necessary guarantee of safe conduct from belligerents. Before Congress was an Administration proposal to exempt Red Cross vessels from the Neutrality Act; otherwise the McKeesport might have to be ordered back. Cried West Virginia's lame-duck Senator Rush Holt: "This resolution of authority might be the spark. ..." Nevertheless, the resolution passed...
...gone to form "a centre of scientific researches in what is commonly known as education," Signorina Maria Montessori, 69, pioneer woman educator and founder of the famed Montessori (progressive kindergarten) method, was interned as an enemy alien. Mohandas K. Gandhi asked for her release, guaranteed "her good conduct...
...Showed discontent with conduct...
...Column and see again the film The Spanish Earth. If MacLeish had been at Guadalajara, Jarama, Madrid, Teruel, first and second battles of the Ebro, he might feel better. Young men wrote of the first war to show truly the idiocies and murderous stupidity of the way it was conducted by the Allies and Italy. Other young men wrote books that showed the same thing about the German conduct of the war. All agreed on war's vileness and undesirability. If Germans have learned how to fight a war and the Allies have not learned, MacLeish can hardly...