Word: behaviors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew, checking the X-15's behavior constantly with the control tower, the B-52 and his chase pilots (one of whom, Air Force Major Robert White, will probably be selected to make the first X-15 test flight in space). When he leveled off at 50,000 ft., Pilot Crossfield called...
...Chelsea police station later, continued Chambers, Podola "looked very pitiful. His behavior was odd." Police Surgeon John Shanahan testified that when he examined Podola then, "it was impossible to make contact with him." Other police doctors told how Podola gradually began to recover, and even to volunteer remembered bits, e.g., a memory picture of a woman called Ruth, and a child called Micky he believed was theirs. Noting signs of Podola's "withdrawal," one doctor said that Podola "liked to keep near the wall when he moved along the corridor." "It is an accepted thing that distinguished scholars like...
...disorder. Quincy became a martinet, the "Tiberius" of the College. "His policy toward the students, an alternate cuffing and caressing, ended in making him the most unpopular President in Harvard history since Hoar," wrote historian Samuel Eliot Morison. Quincy knew what was right--the Puritan code of upright moral behavior--and attempted to impose this upon the naturally unwilling student body...
Throughout the 92 years of his life, Quincy always held to his definition of correct behavior. And this almost always brought him success, with the singular exception of his sojourn at Harvard. As a Congressman, reform mayor, historian, and Federalist leader he had few peers; when the Corporation selected Quincy as the fifteenth president of the College it was on the basis of a distinguished record of public service...
...hypocrisy in the church, and immoral behavior among believers...