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Word: formality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was not the first time that a Western state visitor to Moscow had been deliberately humiliated. Konrad Adenauer had been confronted with a cold blackmailer's offer-10,000 German P.W.s would be returned only if Bonn formally recognized Moscow. And on the very evening in 1956 when France's Premier Guy Mollet signed a communique hailing Franco-Soviet friendship, Khrushchev, at a Kremlin reception, toasted Algerian independence. But never before had the Russians exposed an eminent Western statesman to quite such open boorishness. With calculated contempt, Khrushchev chose to confide to his campaign audience several pertinent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Blowup | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

There will be no formal social affiliation, and, as Bullitt put it, "we are not trying to organize a man's dating life." However, according to Mrs. Daisy Newman, Head Resident of Holmes, there may be "a number of joint social occasions, including record dances...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Holmes Hall, Quincy House Will Affiliate | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser himself seemed still to be the most popular man in the country. To make the new republic's first anniversary memorable, Nasser planned the first formal distribution of 155,000 acres of land to the peasants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: First Anniversary | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...reconciliation between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS), which tended to downgrade "anti-Turkish" charges against Metropolitan James. One of the Cyprus reconcilers: James himself, who in London last week helped swing Archbishop Makarios behind the agreement, then prepared to move on to New York for his, formal installation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Archbishop for the Americas | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Some kind of formal student-faculty collaboration, on the same committee or on parallel committees ought to be worked out," claimed Washburn, former member of the executive board of the Harvard Dramatic Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Sponsors Report On Participation in New Theatre | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

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