Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some readers will think not. They can nevertheless read Mr. Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...
...Boston, when the carolers came on Christmas Eve, the great houses on Beacon Hill would-barring unexpected blackout-be alight from top to bottom, with a candle in every window. There would be shiny holly wreaths tied with red ribbon on the doors, milk-white mistletoe berries over the living-room entrance, clusters of bayberry and bittersweet over the stockings on the mantel. Small children in fuzzy pajamas would be led unwillingly to bed, while teen-age brothers & sisters paraded stiffly in first Tuxedos and long dresses, ready to sweep off to Christmas Eve dances...
Scarcely breaking stride, Bing Crosby loped off with a blue ribbon for meeting the Treasury emergency in song. With Connie Boswell, on his Kraft Music Hall hour Thursday night (NBC Red, 9 to 10), he plugged the pleasantest of 1941's patriotic ditties, Irving Berlin's Any Bonds Today? (copyrighted by Henry Morgenthau Jr.), with a brand-new verse...
...white-haired woman beside Vag leaned against him as he clumsily placed an arm around her shoulders. A lapel ribbon with three gold stars modestly measured her sacrifice, and Vag's own eyes filled when she wiped away a tear with a black handkerchief. Each star represented a brother. He looked over his mother's head toward the platform, finally locating the defeated President. Vag followed the fixed stare of the man's eyes down to the end of the cane which rested beside him; and then, looking at the worried face, Vag tried to pierce into the throughts...
...triple-ply ribbon for pioneer excellence in the crucial art of sub contracting has long been worn by instrument-making Sperry Corp., which has been at it since 1936. Of Sperry's $250,000,000 backlog, almost all defense orders, 50% (in man-hours) is farmed out to more than a thousand firms. Half of these companies and 35% of the man-hours represent pure subcontracting (as distinguished from normal purchases from vendors). This week Sperry President Thomas A. Morgan described Sperry's subcontracting methods, gave some pointers that Floyd Odium's Defense Contract Distribution Service might...