Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 21, 1949 when the vote came, and the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. With the vote the formal frontier of U.S. defense leaped across 4,000 miles. It now ran from the windswept tundras of Norway, across the low-lying plains of The Netherlands and Belgium, down the scarred Rhine valley to a dust-hot road barrier outside troubled Trieste...
Latter-day Runyon creatures spoke a language of their own, a dialect which showed traces of remote English ancestry but which, despite its lack of formal grammar, was curiously courtly in its rhythms. When a Runyon character wanted to say that a tout had left money to his girl friend to buy him a tombstone, he said, "I am under the impression that he leaves Beatrice well loaded as far as the do-re-mi is concerned and I take it for granted that she handles the stone situation." In Runyonese there was only one tense, the universal present...
...formal international organization. Grand lodges, with regional jurisdiction over "constituent" lodges, are laws unto themselves. In the U.S. the regions are the 48 states and the District of Columbia. But Masonry is a theoretical world brotherhood open to any "good" man, Protestant, Jew, Catholic, Mohammedan, Taoist, Buddhist...
...bring himself to forget the girl who jilted him, the Russians are still unable to abandon completely the idea of blockading Berlin. Theoretically, rail, road and water traffic between West Germany and Berlin have been open for two months. In fact, hardly a week has gone by since the formal lifting of the blockade without Russian chicanery arbitrarily disrupting services somewhere along the line...
...emphasis on manipulation exposed osteopathy* to ridicule. Medical history was full of quack bonesetters, and Still's disciples were lumped with them. Orthodox doctors agitated for state laws to curb the osteopaths. Chiropractors, with less formal education, came along and won a name as spine manipulators, and thus helped bring osteopathy into disrepute by association.. Finally, orthodox M.D s had developed a bone science of their own called it orthopedics, and left the osteopaths high...