Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone rang in Vice President Richard Nixon's Washington office. Over the wire came the voice of Dwight Eisenhower, who wanted to talk about the speech Nixon would make that afternoon at Ike's Gettysburg farm. There 650 Republican leaders from every state would gather for the formal launching of the 1956 campaign. "Lay it on the line, Dick," said the President. "Let's get a little tough with those people...
...Clutching this straw of power, Hatoyama hoped that the drama of his mission to Moscow would silence his critics. In a letter to Russian Premier Bulganin, Hatoyama proposed a peace with Russia on "the Adenauer formula," i.e., resume diplomatic relations on an interim basis, leaving the terms of a formal peace treaty (and hence the question of ownership of Etorofu and Kunashiri) for future settlement...
...another month at least its distance will not increase enough to make any appreciable difference. The astronomers, however, cannot report all their findings immediately. They will need much time for study and coming to conclusions. In fact, the public may not get the latest news from Mars until the formal meeting of the International Mars Committee in June...
...kitchen. ¶ "The physician who sells his testimony to the highest bidder and shades his testimony to the extent that he is paid" should have his license revoked, A.M.A. President Dwight Murray told the American Bar Association. And, he added, so should the lawyer who hired him. ¶ Without formal training, Midwife Josie Sizemore has delivered more than 2,000 babies in Kentucky's mountain counties of Clay, Leslie, Bell, Harlan and Knox. This week hundreds of the men and women she has "fetched" into the world gathered in Manchester for a reunion. Some were over...
...decision was first taken last fortnight by a three-to-two vote, with Republicans Chan Gurney and Harmar Denny in the minority. Ordinarily, the board would then have waited about a month to announce it in a formal order, but word quickly leaked to the "corridor walkers"-the airline lobbyists who have been putting tremendous heat on CAB. Suddenly, Northeast's ordinarily sluggish shares (only 249,600 traded in all of 1955) zoomed; in just one day 24,000 were traded, with the stock jumping from 9½ to 12½. Finally, as the rumor hit front pages...