Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington looked down upon 52 members of the Eisenhower family, ten Nixons and a handful of old friends and servants gathered in the East Room of the White House. It was a quiet, midmorning group, and yet the occasion was both formal and historic: since their terms legally expired on Sunday (and by tradition the public ceremony could not be held until Monday -see below), Dwight David Eisenhower and Richard Milhous Nixon were about to take the oath of office in private ceremony, i.e., unwatched by public or press...
...Saud, the Old Lion, reared his son in the stern tradition of the desert. Saud's formal schooling consisted of the Koran, and ended at 13. But he learned the slashing swordsmanship of the Arab horseman; and as late as 1929, young Prince Saud was dealing with a domestic crisis by the simpler method of chopping off the heads of captured tribesmen. Once he saved his father's life by leaping between him and an assassin, taking the descending knife in his shoulder. Saud's concepts of government were formed in a land where there...
...week's end came hints of a caller whose appearance would do more for the Western alliance than a regiment of bustling, brief-cased statesmen. To Britain's Queen Elizabeth went overtures for a state visit, possibly in October. If the Queen is agreeable, a formal invitation will follow...
...pencil in his fluttering fingers. Sir Anthony explained that his doctors declared his health was giving them cause for concern. There were very difficult times ahead, and he felt it his duty to say forthwith that his health was not good enough to sustain him through these tasks. The formal visit to Buckingham Palace followed...
...postpone what did not have to be faced. So it happened that at 6:55 on Wednesday night, as Anthony Eden was speeding to Chequers, the Tories found themselves without an agreed candidate. What happened in the next 19 hours was the unique, mysterious process of internal consultation, without formal votes or speeches, of the Tory Party with itself, which produced a Prime Minister...