Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irresistible. In Tacoma, Wash., handsome Policeman Patrick O'Malley, walking his beat, was hugged by a pretty, impulsive blonde, dutifully had her fined $15 and costs for disorderly conduct...
...credit for the successful field conduct of Russia's part in the war presumably rests chiefly on Voroshilov and Zhukov. In the west the credit belongs chiefly to the Combined Chiefs of Staff and to their field commanders Eisenhower, Montgomery...
...Wehrmacht still showed skill. It held the Russians at the Vistula. It held the Allies' secondary attack in Italy. It launched a vigorous offensive in the Ardennes. But, once its two initial advantages in manpower and weapons had been definitely lost, it did not conduct a single successful campaign. Like the Allies in Stage I, the Germans in Stage III lost every major battle...
Dimitri Mitropoulos, tight-lipped conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, denying rumors that he would replace Serge Koussevitzky as conductor of the Boston Symphony, playfully started a rumor of his own: "I am going to conduct a symphony ... in the Aleutians, and Koussevitzky is going to Berlin...
Said a salesman in furniture: "The first I heard about the bad conduct was what I read in the papers...