Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squarely on the fence. It saluted the idea of a collective world-up to a point. But in the conduct of Assembly business and the incessant maneuvering which went on behind the scenes, not even the Russians gave any more naked demonstrations than did Jimmy Byrnes of his intent to use the veto whenever necessary to protect U.S. prerogatives. The vigorous U.S. fight to get three of the six nonpermanent Security Council seats for the New World, two of them for her immediate neighbors, was plain power politics...
...Victory Collection of Canned Food for overseas relief, which is on behalf of UNRRA, encourages local groups and organizations to conduct collections of canned food. For information on organizing such a collection or where to ship contributions of food, interested groups should write to The Victory Collection of Canned Food, 100 Maiden Lane, New York...
...Best-Dressed Woman title for the second year running. Donors of the title: Manhattan's dressmakers, who sent some 150 hand-picked voters a list of past winners ("merely to refresh your mind") with the grave warning that the affair was "one which we try to conduct seriously...
...young maiden's life. Says the composer: "I suppose she dies in the end. Nobody knows." The fourth, Nobilis-sima Visione, was known as St. Francis when Massine danced it. "I never go to see the performances," Hindemith added. "I saw Nobilissima once because I had to conduct it." In less melodic days, Atonalist Hindemith wrote an opera (Hin und Zurück) to be performed both forwards and back wards. The Nazis called him a "Kulturbol-schewist noisemaker" and banned his works from Germany. Says Hindemith: "I never was controversial. But people were." Today, at 50, Hindemith...
...anybody can conduct. Well, almost anybody...