Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Shah heartily, bundled him off to review an honor guard, and steered him through the gauntlet of White House photographers. Together they drove in an open limousine through flag-draped streets to present the Shah with a six-inch key to the nation's capital. At a formal state banquet in the Carlton Hotel that night, Harry Truman offered him the keys to the nation as well, along with a little homily on the uses of democracy...
...rest of Washington apparently agreed. While the President closeted himself in the White House for a conference with State Department officials on the Far East, the Shah was whirled off through a busy schedule of sightseeing, wreath-laying and conferences at Mount Vernon, Annapolis and the Pentagon, a formal dinner with Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson. At a luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work, too. I can be described...
...State Department was also obliged to deliver a formal protest to the other side in China's war. A U.S. freighter, the Flying Cloud, had been shot at by a destroyer escort while running the Nationalist blockade off the China coast. The protest was bound to be mild, since the department does not acknowledge the blockade but looks upon it benignly...
...formal state of war which still exists between the Western nations and Germany would be softened by juggling some technicalities, but not altogether suspended (the U.S. wants to retain a legal basis for keeping a U.S. force in Western Germany...
...narrative told largely in the words of the men and officers who did the fighting. Tapped for the job by Navy Secretary Knox in 1943 was Captain Walter Karig, U.S.N.R., in civilian life a newsman and prolific writer of children's books. The other was planned as a formal history based on all available information-"unofficial" to allow for criticism but backed to the hilt by all the resources o.f Navy documents and officialdom. The man who proposed the idea to F.D.R. early in 1942 got the job. He was Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard professor of history and Pulitzer...