Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terror of the Evildoers." Nineteen days after George Marshall's arrival in Chungking, the Government and the Communists signed a truce. Six weeks later they signed a formal agreement to reduce and merge their armies (from 300 divisions to 60, within 18 months). But no man understood better than the Special Envoy that agreement, in principle, on a high political level would mean nothing unless kept, in practice, at a low political level. He had promoted the idea of an Executive Headquarters, set up at Peiping, which sent out Government-Communist-U.S. field teams to enforce the truce...
Yale's powerful squash team trounced the Crimson Varsity 8 to 1 Saturday on the victors,' home courts. Bob Rowe, playing number nine, emerged from the debacle with the only Crimson victory of the afternoon as the squad ended its first formal season since the beginning of the war on a sour note...
...formal surrender of the Japanese garrison on Bali last week was one of those ceremonies the British always carry off so well...
Maggie Teyte has a way of being herself on stage, which charmed the audiences but sometimes chilled the critics. Says she, "The formal, cold stage is pfft. I want to throw my arms and roll my eyes. These young girls, they parade and strut around the stage and wonder 'What do I look like?' I forget...
Furthermore, one man opposed to all veterans groups has been asked to present his views. Speeches will be limited to ten minutes, and there will be a question period after the formal part of the program has been concluded...