Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...have a misty, remote view of Castro as a savior of their kind, and as a symbol of rebellion against their miserable lot. A government that voted to condemn Castro in the OAS would risk popular wrath at home. Such being the case, the U.S. decided to present a formal list of Castro's excesses for the record, to justify the new U.S. policy of economic action against Castro that is beginning to take form...
Only six years have elapsed since twelve physicians got together in a Spokane hotel and put up $10 each to start an atomic medicine society, loudly proclaiming their hope that it would never grow into "one of those big, formal organizations." Last week 600 members of the big, formal Society of Nuclear Medicine (total membership: 1,500) jammed the Stanley Hotel in Colorado's Estes Park to report progress in applying nuclear science to medicine...
Accordingly, Nixon took off, at week's end, on a four-day flight to Texas, the Dakotas and Missouri. Although his official campaign kickoff is scheduled for Sept. 19, Nixon winged into Fargo* with a formal speech in his briefcase. Subject: farm policy...
Table Hoppers. In Thetford, England, a general and two other senior guests of honor arose at the end of a formal military banquet, started to leave the room, found that the table was following them because a practical joker had lashed their ankles to its legs...
...years have passed since a young teacher in Alabama held her little pupil's hand under a flowing pump spout and manually spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain: "In memory...