Word: ribbon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soon exhausted. The hearing panels were concerned with finding out one thing- were you there? Questions about the righteousness of your cause and extenuating circumstances became, in legal terminology, irrelevant and immaterial. It is important to stress this. The CRR was not a commission of inquiry or a blue-ribbon investigating panel. It was simply a disciplinary board, and its title, Committee of Rights and Responsibilities, was a misnomer. The Committee was not concerned with anyone's rights or responsibilities. It was concerned with punishing students, not investigating student claims; it was roughly equivalent to a criminal court. A real...
Like some pharaoh of a technocratic dynasty, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last week celebrated the completion of a project 17 times larger than Cheops' Pyramid at Giza. Grasping a pair of ceremonial shears, Sadat snipped a bright green ribbon to dedicate El Sadd El AH, the Aswan High Dam on the Upper Nile. As he did, a band played, young girls released flocks of doves, and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny spoke one word of Arabic: "Mabrouk [Congratulations...
...electricity consumed in Cairo, 560 miles to the north. The dam will control floods and irrigate 1,300,000 acres of heretofore arid land. Until now, Egyptians have been able to farm only 4% of their land; the dam will enable them to reach out from the narrow ribbon of greenery along the Nile to which they have been confined for thousands of years. It will also permit farmers to grow many double and triple crops...
...Coco sprang no surprises, only refinements on what was her classic look: the short, straight, collarless jacket, the slightly flaring skirt, and hems that never budged from mid-knee length. Wearing the broad-brimmed Breton hat that was her hallmark, her scissors hanging from a ribbon around her neck, and her four fingers held firmly together in spite of severe arthritis, she would feel for defects. Working directly on the model, she often picked a dress apart with the point of her scissors, complaining that it was unwearable. Her fashion empire, at her death, brought in over $160 million...
...form of "French letter," a century-old British slang term for condom. "Instead of being made out of synthetic rubber, as they are nowadays, it was made out of sheep's gut," explains the council. "To keep it in place, he tied it on with a tasteful pink ribbon...