Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other white boys and girls; there, two of the girls sat on the laps of white boys, and a third sat on Thompson's lap and kissed him. The Negro boys, who had already been in minor scrapes with the local police (housebreaking, petty thievery), were committed, without formal charges or trial, to the reform school for an indeterminate term...
...while he was neither ready to help Fanfani nor to climb down one bit from his neutralist foreign policy, Nenni was ready at last to break his formal "unity of action" pact with the Reds. Over stormy protests from pro-Communist members of the party, the delegates voted by a 3-to-2 margin to end the "popular front" electoral alliance with the Communists. Cooperation with the Reds will continue in trade unions, local governments and cooperatives. At the moment, this amounted to not much of a break for Nenni, and none at all for Fanfani...
...contest. Fired by this year's contemporary topic (windows), an astounding 22,427 waka fanciers had submitted the stirrings of their muses. Eleven of the 15 winners were able to join the imperial family in the palace's drafty West Room to hear professional chanters drone the formal. 31-syllable verselets. The Emperor, who is above the burly of competition, had again delighted all by submitting a waka himself. Five times, a chanter intoned the tiny poem...
...Communist guerrillas. Red China's Ambassador Li I-mang has lately complained to the Burmese for permitting the showing of the Nat "King" Cole film China Gate, and even protested when a soccer team from Hong Kong played in Rangoon. And so in Burma Tito got a formal 21-gun salute and the usual round of dinners and conferences, but he cut short his two-day visit by five hours...
...dimes. He ran his college well, but had to give up teaching as administrative duties piled up. Recently Taylor's best-reported diversion has been a low-comedy wrangle with the Westchester County American Legion, to whom Sarah Lawrence's progressive-education scheme of life (no formal majors, no grades) smells of left-wingery. Determined to return to a scholar's life, he wrote: "The steadily increasing burden of responsibility placed upon the American college president for administering and financing education has become so great that it removes from him the opportunity to share in the intellectual...