Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis was there to oust Murray from the vice-presidency he had held for 20 years in the Mine Workers' Union. The formal basis for the ouster: Murray had accepted other offices. (He is the new president of C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers of America.) Real reason: they had finally parted company over John's political beliefs. This moment was Angry John's vengeance...
Standing at attention while Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall intoned the formal citation, lean-faced, balding Jimmy Doolittle bent forward while President Roosevelt pinned the gold, blue-ribboned medal above his left shirt pocket. Not even a columnist, chortled the President, had known the identity of the raid's leader...
...this thing with both feet. I'm going to Tokyo with a load of bombs." Doolittle, who once demonstrated a commercial plane with his two broken ankles in plaster casts, is no braggart. Now, having made good, he told Washington newsmen about his deed of derring-doolittle in formal Army lingo...
Nevertheless, though worried and internally divided, the Avila Camacho Cabinet took the next step toward war, summoned a special session of Congress for this week to authorize a formal declaration...
Thursday, after the morning chapel service, in accordance with an ancient tradition, the officers of the University, Faculty members, representatives of church and state, and special guests, all in academic gowns or formal attire, will lead the procession of members of the graduating classes and Alumni from the Old Yard quadrangle to Sever quadrangle, where the morning exercises are to be held. The procession will be headed by Dr. Reginald Fitz '06, of Brookline, Mass., University Marshal and Lecturer on the History of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School...