Word: formality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Assimilated they may have believed themselves to be, yet at the same time no less proud of being Jewish. One image that sticks in my mind is that of my father, himself a lawyer, walking to Jewish High Holy Day services in formal attire, top hat and all, carrying his prayer book in his right hand, for all to see; the iron cross "first class," which he had won in the First World War, pinned to his frock coat. "They wouldn't dare lay a hand on me," he used to say. He turned...
...Relief Partnership, a group of five Ethiopian churches without ties to any of the rebel groups. In response to heavy international pressure, Mengistu hinted that the government might work with the churches to open "corridors of safe passage" through the hardest-hit regions. But he has yet to give formal approval...
During the last five years, police have repeatedly sought to crack down on illicit sexual activity in the Science Center bathrooms. In 1985, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III ordered the doors on lavatory stalls removed, shortly after two undergraduates and a University employee filed formal complaints that they had been harassed in the bathroom...
...about the author's identity. Could it be Robert Gates, deputy director of the National Security Council, whose hard-line views on the Soviets upset Bush Administration moderates? (Gates said no.) Or Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's tough-talking National Security Adviser? Others pointed to the piece's stilted, formal prose as persuasive evidence that the author is most likely a foreigner, possibly a Russian. The editors at Daedalus weren't talking. Neither...
...community leaders in Mission Hill complained that police were indiscriminately stopping and frisking 200 black men a day. With little evidence to go on, William Bennett, 39, an unemployed black with a long criminal record, was arrested on Nov. 11. Stuart tentatively identified him in a lineup, but no formal charges were lodged against...