Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States Services were not on the alert against the surprise air attack on Hawaii. This fact calls for a formal investigation which will be initiated immediately by the President....We are all entitled to know it if: a) there was any error of judgment which contributed to the surprise, b) if there was any dereliction of duty prior to the attack...
...career, and of the offensive. Neil Ritchie is only 44. If only because of his youth, he may do better than Cunningham, who is ten years his senior. But his career, from subaltern in the Black Watch at 17 to Major General at 43, has been almost too formal to promise the flashes of unorthodoxy which usually herald great commanders...
Paraguay under General Higinio Morinigo's authoritarian Government was, beyond a formal affirmation of solidarity, strangely silent. Like Bolivia. Paraguay is completely hemmed in by neighbor nations. It is in close proximity to centers of German population in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina...
...waiting, no one would ever know. In her home in Vermont, a few days before Franklin Pierce was elected President of the 31 United States, she pondered. There had been a lovers' quarrel; her sweetheart was now in the South. She made her decision. In the formal, stilted English of 1852, she began a letter...
...British Raj was in an appeasing mood last week. Ostensibly because "all responsible opinion in India" is determined to support the war, the Government of India (acting for the Colonial office) decided to release civil-disobedience prisoners "whose offense has been formal and symbolic." Included were gentle, scholarly Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, President of the Indian National Congress, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, next to Mohandas K. Gandhi the most potent man in the Party...