Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoped that a move toward peace might neutralize the formidable challenge to his renommation that was being posed by Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy. In addition, his popularity hit an all-time low in a Gallup poll released this week. Only 36% of those questioned approved of his conduct of the presidency (v. 48% in January); only 26% approved of his conduct...
...Johnson's slide. Administration officials still believe that the attacks were a costly military failure for the Communists. But they concede that Tet had severely damaging psychological effects on the U.S. pub lic In its aftermath, Johnson began his reexamination of the U.S. war effort. To help him conduct the review, he summoned General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, the tough, cigar-chomping tank commander who is the second-ranking...
...hits of the Prague theater season, The Labyrinth by Ladislav Smoček, shows men imprisoned in a maze of park pathways and hedges, which represent bureaucracy. While an amused keeper watches with his vicious dog, they crawl piteously about, toss out the bones of their dead comrades and conduct absurd conversations...
...home in Dakota, but that don't make no never mind. It's feudin' and fightin' soon's they git there. The young lovers fall out -but not out of the pitcher, unfortunately. Grandpa gits so riled he won't even conduct the family bane no more. The argyments continue up to ee-lection night, when Benjamin Harrison beats out Grover (hope that don't spile the suspense none). In the end, the couple gits reunited o'course, Grandpa picks up his baton, and it's choke-up time again, bringin...
...country's most lucid military commentators. His books ranged from The Martial Spirit (1931), which examined the origins of the Spanish-American War, to This Is Pearl! (1947), a study of U.S. unpreparedness against the Japanese attack. Recently, though, his articles turned more to politics than the conduct of arms, criticizing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and voicing opposition to nuclear weapons as instruments of national policy...