Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both the Army and the Marines. By the time he was 19, Mike had served in three branches of the armed forces, never rising above the rank of private first class, and was the youngest Montanan in the war. He still wears the Marines' discharge button in his lapel...
SNCC members will sell lapel buttons, books of freedom songs, and records by the "Freedom Singers" is Harvard and Radcliffe dining rooms all next week as part of the fund raising effort...
...bother about what other people say, because you are you! The thing to be is just yourself." She also tells them that Monk is no one special, but the children have seen him asleep with his Japanese skullcap on his head or with a cabbage leaf drooping from his lapel, and they know better...
...used to be that half the passengers on the Metro wore the Legion of Honor," crack Parisians. "Now the only ones who still bother to wear it are the conductors." Today, some 300,000 Frenchmen and several thousand foreigners are entitled to the Legion's lapel emblem, and Charles de Gaulle, who as President of France is Grand Master of the Legion, is anxious to make the list more exclusive. De Gaulle has recently approved a decree reducing the number of annual awards by 20%. Through normal attrition, the government hopes the Legion will have dwindled...
...prestige it should have," De Gaulle's government last week formally established a second-ranking decoration known as the Order of Merit. Hence forth, the Legion of Honor will be awarded only for "eminent service." Merely "distinguished service" will be rewarded with the new Order of Merit, whose lapel ribbons and rosettes will look like the Legion's, except that the color will be blue...