Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported the board: "[We were] greatly impressed by the thoroughness of the instruction, the alertness of the students, and the excellence in balance between the discussion allowed the students . . . and the more formal aspect of recitation and instruction. . . . There is no justification for the popular conception that West Point instruction is rigid, stereotyped, and regimented...
General Omar N. Bradley, home from the wars, was greeted by his wife at New York's LaGuardia Field, got in a blitz-quick kiss before photographers caught a more formal reunion...
Cheated of a formal inquisition and execution, Himmler's captors let his body lie for two days on the floor where he had fallen. Medical authorities removed the brain, took plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...
...Progressive Conservatives. "Farmer John" Bracken traveled more slowly, saw more people. He had made 20 formal speeches by week's end, had about ten to go. But it was not as strenuous as it seemed: he always delivered basically the same speech. On a typical day, he was whisked 50 dusty miles by auto from Regina to Indian Head, Saskatchewan. In the town's 100-seat theater, he labored stolidly through his speech. Chief points: Canada's war effort has been sad; there must be military conscription for the Pacific war. Text finished, he talked brightly with...
...talking with hundreds of little people. He was friendly, cheerful, hearty, confident. At every crossroads where he stopped, he walked to bystanders, hand outstretched. His short talks always included: "If I was as bad as they say I am, I would not have been Prime Minister so long." His formal speeches were always sprinkled with phrases like: "Now that this terrible period of war is over. . . ." In Saskatchewan, the Prime Minister bid for left-wing votes ("We will take from those who are favored and give to those who are less favored"). But even in that socialistic province, he acted...