Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week the 22nd annual Montosa Camp Meeting was in full swing in Socorro County, N. Mex., the fourth in a series of revival sessions held each summer along a circuit that includes the cow counties of west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. There were two ministers to conduct services four or five times each day in the big, steel-sided tabernacle, and Bible lessons for the children. Days began with Scripture readings and ended with the singing of hymns. Nights, the men and women swapped stories around campfires before bedding down in trailers or in tents and blanket...
Harvey further stressed that this system would preserve the large bureaucracy necessary to conduct a war-time draft, and that in an emergency, the draft boards could easily be re-activated for a new conscription program
...From his private office in the White House's East Wing or from the big reception desk in the West Wing, Dave may sally forth to relax the President with a political story or a new joke (Kennedy sometimes complains that there are not enough new ones) or conduct a White House tour for VIPs. He frequently dines with the President, has accompanied him overseas, swims with him almost daily in the White House swimming pool, where, says Dave, "all you've got to do is keep your head above water so you can talk." Says a White...
...over the tough spots. Ingenuity, it turned out, was not enough. Because Clarinetist Goodman insisted on tootling from the center of the stage, the piano blocked him from Janis' view, forcing the pianist to crane sideways. To make matters worse, most of the time Benny neglected to conduct; Janis was kept busy nodding cues to the band. The performance was studded with sour notes and awkward pauses...
...hours before the verdict was handed down. In his statement to the court, Salan made the flat charge that in May 1958, when he was military commander in Algeria and led the army's pro-De Gaulle revolt against the Fourth Republic, he was also prepared to conduct a military operation against the French mainland and Paris on orders of De Gaulle himself. For some reason, Salan's lawyers failed to pursue this lead...