Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity swimming team, which opens its season this Saturday against Cornell at Ithaca, remains undisturbed on hearing that the Big Red swimmers spent the vacation practicing at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. No formal workouts for the team were held in the I.A.B. although a few members practiced on their...
Members of The Blue Rider aspired to nothing less than painting the essence of things. They put feeling first, faithfulness to nature or to formal conventions last. They were the clear, sweet dawn of German expressionism, a school that later languished from too much heaviness, bitterness and swagger...
...formal state banquet there were toasts in pomegranate juice, and Marshal Bulganin eagerly grasped the chance to align Russia behind Afghanistan in its quarrel with the West's good friend, Pakistan. He had already nosily sided with India against Pakistan's claims to Kashmir. Now he insisted that it was only just for some 6,000,000 Pathan tribesmen and their hill country in West Pakistan should be severed from Pakistan, turned into the state of Pakhtoonistan and joined with the Afghan state. Premier Daoud appeared delighted...
...visit of Uruguay's President Luis Batlle Berres to the U.S. ran so smoothly early last week that it almost seemed to be proceeding without human effort or strain. There was an easygoing chat with President and Mrs. Eisenhower in Washington, a busy schedule of informal talks and formal parties in Boston, and a quick flight to Chicago. But during predinner cocktails on Batlle Berres' first evening there, it was suddenly and painfully shown just how much human effort had gone into the trip. While holding (but not yet drinking) a Scotch-and-water, he fainted, showed symptoms...
...average individual is as happy as a clam to hide behind a committee." A variation of the decision-postponing conference is the loaded conference. This is called after an executive has already buttonholed the conferees, thus assured himself that they are in agreement with him. Then a time-wasting formal conference is called, simply to hedge the executive against criticism should his decision later turn out to be wrong...