Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Guardsman of No. 1 Company, Coldstream Guards,* who bore the appropriate name of Victor Footer. He steadfastly denied that he had intentionally kicked the woman, even though she was "sniggering" at him. But he was marched off to Wellington Barracks and charged with "irregular conduct while on sentry-go" and with being "extremely idle"-a brigade term used to cover anything unbecoming a guardsman. By the time Footer got his ten days CB (confinement to barracks), he was a national hero...
...only three. Norwegians were quick to point out that "all" flags are flown on the anniversaries of such great Norwegian authors as Ibsen and Bjornson. Said the newspaper Dagbladet: "Hamsun will go down in history as one of the greatest authors. But . . . any attempt to explain away his conduct during the war would be wrong and in bad taste...
...Aviation Editor Harry Franken, 35, are smart, hardworking newsmen on the daily Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (circ. 85,942). But once each week the two slip off duty and into the harness of the Columbus C.I.O. News, a weekly organ for organized labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more and more time on the goody-goody type...
...decorum at which Victoria herself would not cavil," but, he said, Santangelo "could not be described as Victorian." Added Examiner Funke: "The contiguous employment of male and female in offices and plants has inevitably led to a relaxing of formal barriers and to a tolerance of casual badinage and conduct not free from overtones...
...Cuban government officials, spent some ten hours in close conversation with his friend Fidel. Talking to fellow newsmen, he steadfastly defended Castro. Did he feel any disenchantment at all? "No, I see no reason to," replied Matthews, and in effect repeated the explanation he gave of Castro's conduct in his Times story: "Youth must sow its wild oats...