Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaker's bell from Shvetsov's hand. The Bolshevik Sverdlov, ringing the captured bell, announced the opening of the Assembly for the second time. After a singing of the Internationale, Sverdlov invited the Deputies to become a rubber-stamp Parliament, warning us that "even from a formal point of view," any opposition to the Soviet regime was, in essence, illegal. Before murdering the Assembly, the Reds were giving it the option of committing suicide...
...Nike program into the field, helped the Army keep for a while its continental defense mission. He became the biggest inspiration for the Army's research work in missiles, protected the missilemakers at the Army's Huntsville Arsenal while they developed the Jupiter C without formal Pentagon authorization...
...years of steeping himself in antiquity, Britain's Novelist-Poet Robert (I, Claudius; The Greek Myths) Graves had never been to Rome. Last week, resplendent in a white formal evening shirt, pink tie and embroidered gold vest, Traveler Graves, 62, long based on the Mediterranean isle of Majorca, finally made his first appearance on the scene of many of his writings. To the dismay of Roman antiquarians, he refused to go near the Colosseum or other ruins: "Why should I visit ruins when the shops are so good?" In high good humor, he recalled a fanciful previous visit...
Despite the time, money and effort that go into formal management training, some companies consider the whole thing a monumental waste of time. They feel, like Douglas Aircraft, that without any help from training schools, "the cream will come to the top and the skimmed milk will stay at the bottom." The management-training-school graduate, they point out, often faces a flock of frustrations on his return to work. "Lots of men feel that being sent to college is like being told they're going to be vice president," says one executive. "When it doesn't happen...
...declare that Eisenhower went comatose months ago, and that the country has been run by Sherman Adams and "some guy called Watson and his 3,000 IBM machines." Abroad, Alfred Krupp will deny that he now owns the controlling stock in the French Republic. Nikita Khrushchev will bring a formal complaint to the United Nations General Assembly. The Soviet Ruler will complain that the United States has been distributing subversive literature along Russia's northern coast with the aid "of a sneaky saboteur who travels in a kayak...