Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a young ex-chaplain was beset by misgivings. Misgiving No. 1 he shared with mustered-out Americans of every sort, from radio stars to ribbon clerks: "Will I get a job?" Ex-chaplains too recently graduated from divinity schools to have had a parish and those whose pulpits have been filled by able successors feared they might have to sweat it out a long time...
...China-Burma-India area was the most confused of all Allied war commands. A U.S. colonel once despairingly explained that the multinational, multiservice commands could not be illustrated on an ordinary service chart, but needed "a three-dimensional organization chart with a wire framework and five shades of colored ribbon, which ought to indicate at least the simpler relationships...
...with no word to the contrary received, he was "presumed lost in action." For his outstanding bravery in action, he received, posthumously, the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart Medal. He was also entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, the Fleet Clasp, and the Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Ribbon. In his honor, the government launched the destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele on April...
...sunny day last week 26-year-old Corporal Desmond T. Doss stood at attention on the White House lawn. President Harry Truman placed a pale blue ribbon around his neck, shook his hand warmly. As he stepped back-the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor-generals, admirals, Cabinet members, his proud parents and his pretty wife applauded enthusiastically...
...Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance. At one point the girl swings away from her partner, does a brief waltz step with a hop and a tap thrown in, while picking up her skirts and swishing them back & forth in flirty fashion. Nobody bothers about a ribbon on the floor, or singing while they dance, as the jarachos...