Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporters dashed for telephones and typewriters; the secretaries in the French delegation fell happily into one another's arms. Hastily, the formal signing was arranged for 9 o'clock that evening...
Further Barbarity. In London the Foreign Office prepared a formal protest. The U.S., with three U.S. citizens dead, three wounded, also had something to say. John Foster Dulles announced that "the U.S. Government takes the gravest view of this action of further barbarity, for which the Chinese Communist regime must be held responsible...
...Spike organized a boxing team that was undefeated for eleven years. He did not rest until boxing was made an important part of the regular physical training program and one of the biggest crowd attractions at Annapolis. Once, to cut the cheering section to manageable size, the Academy made formal dress the uniform for attending fights. MacDonough Hall gymnasium was still filled to capacity...
...SHAREHOLDER LORD BEAVERBROOK. Last week the Express dropped the Beaver's line and announced that "the newspapers have passed out of his control." The Beaver had turned over his controlling shares to the Beaverbrook Foundation, which has been set up as a "British Empire educational trust." But the formal change did not mean that the Beaver was relinquishing any of the undisputed control he has exercised over the Express and his two other dailies...
...half-starved boy in grey rags, and so helpless that he had to be wheeled to classes in an old baby carriage. But Sam, who showed surprising aptitude for drawing, soon told the canon: "I can carve." Paterson wisely refrained from giving the crippled young Negro any formal art training. "What I tried to do," said Paterson, "was let him express what was in his eyes and mind...