Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...they attributed his curiosity to his religious nature and his firm belief in life after death. None of them could say whether, in the privacy of his study, Mackenzie King actually tried to communicate with his dead mother or whether his spiritualist experiments had any effect upon his conduct of the country's affairs...
From the moment when Sir Thomas strode slowly out to the podium to conduct the Star Spangled Banner and God Save the King until he finished conducting his encore he held the almost ell-out audience in breathless suspense with the excellence of his music...
...wartime conduct of the South Korean people as well as of their leaders reflected favorably on Rhee's government. The R.O.K. army, which suffered few desertions, proved itself the most determined and effective of Asia's anti-Communist armies. And, contrary to all expectations, there was little true guerrilla activity in South Korea. There were innumerable attacks by North Korean irregular troops, but few proved instances of South Korean peasants or workers attacking U.N. forces...
...Attractive." This summer workshop-including its special morale-building song ("We are working in the workshop/ Working all day thru/ Learning all about Democracy/ Education and Science too . . .")-was not unique in its preoccupations. At another conference, "I saw some 400 poor, tired, middle-aged teachers solemnly conduct a discussion of 'desirable characteristics for a teacher.' They listed, one after the other, all the human virtues and agreed that teachers should have them . . . They [concluded] by taking a formal resolution that 'teachers should be personally attractive...
...very far wrong, either." He has been getting along well with his neighbors in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, but Tegucigalpa buzzed this week with outspoken if undocumented suspicions that Guatemala might have financed the recent mischiefmaking. Last week, when the Guatemalan embassy requested safe conduct out of the country for the two Hondurans implicated in the plot, Gálvez smiled sweetly and answered: "Just be patient; meantime, give them soft beds and good food...