Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French paratroopers boxed in Mourad and Ramel on the third floor of a once ornate, four-story, Turkish-style house in the Casbah. Firing, their burp guns, the two rebels held out for an hour. Then one shouted. "We'll surrender, but only if Bigeard signs a safe-conduct saying that we won't be tortured." Down in the street, tough French Paratroop Colonel Marcel Bigeard ordered a ceasefire, and then watched as the terrorists lowered a small bundle by string to the street. Two French officers and a noncom walked over to inspect this "token of surrender...
Billy will be back in Manhattan for a week of "Visitation Evangelism" (Oct. 20-27), during which volunteers will conduct a house-to-house campaign, culminating in a rally at the 63,000-capacity Polo Grounds on Reformation Sunday...
...stiff-necked Yankee pastor, he conceived the notion that art can be purely "intellectual." While Morse was at Yale, President Timothy Dwight regularly admonished his students against all kinds of fun. "Recollect," Dwight would cry out, "that you are to give an account of your conduct at the last day." Samuel Morse felt quite at home in this stringent atmosphere. Along with painting, he dabbled in electricity, which alarmed his father. "Your natural disposition,'' warned the elder Morse, "renders it proper for me earnestly to recommend to you to attend to one thing at a time...
...Kurdish colonel. Two more revolts followed and the second brought to power hard-eyed little Colonel Adib Shishekly, who favorably impressed visiting Western statesmen. But his ironhanded dictatorship earned him innumerable enemies, and in 1954 another army revolt sent him scurrying off to Beirut under safe conduct. He is now variously reported to be in Beirut, Paris or Saudi Arabia, and is invariably accused of masterminding every plot against the regime...
...London, doing its best to keep a stiff upper lip over such headstrong conduct, the Commonwealth Relations Office was plainly no longer so enthusiastic over Nkrumah. Harrumphed one official: "The best way of putting it would be to say at this point we are tolerant of Dr. Nkrumah's actions...