Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Champaign, Ill. school board had violated the Constitution when it permitted religious instruction during school hours and on school property (TIME, March 22, 1948). Champaign thereupon closed down its formal religious program; churchmen and educators waited to see how other communities would react. Last week, a survey by the National Education Association gave the first comprehensive check...
...jail making martyrs of themselves and stirring up trouble." But there were signs that Larry Gara had also had his fill of martyrdom. Last week a minister friend was trying to find a job for him and a place to live, so that he could put in a formal application for parole. Wrote Gara to the minister: "The days now go rather rapidly, but the weeks creep and the months seem very long . . . But God does grant me the strength sufficient unto each day, and I feel that, so far at least, I've not succumbed to the temptation...
...story came to light last week during a formal Greek army court-martial. It happened at Klidi, a mountain village on the strategic Kozane-Florina road. Klidi's 600 inhabitants are mostly illiterate and know little of democracy; as for the civil war, many of their kin fought with the government, many with the guerrillas. The only thing the people of Klidi knew for sure was that they wanted to hold on to their rich cornfields. For that reason, they had collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation; for that reason, they obeyed the rule of their proedros...
...clock one morning last week, a formal procession of Peruvians turned into the broad, tree-lined Alameda of Chile's capital city, Santiago. It was Peru's Independence Day, and the procession, headed by well-groomed Ambassador Carlos Miró Quesada, drew up before the equestrian statues of Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martin, laid wreaths at the statues of Peru's (and Chile's) heroes...
...White Motor Co. trucks. This week, the motor-hungry nation was negotiating a $3,000,000 deal with General Motors, and another $3,000,000 in contracts with seven other U.S. motormakers for a grand total of 4,800 trucks, buses and tractors. In addition, as soon as a formal peace can be signed with its Arab neighbors, Israel hoped to clinch the Ford plant in Haifa...