Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called to his pursuers: "This way, boys, it's too hot for hikin'." While police in radio cars patrolled seaside resorts, pleading with parents to keep their children out of the sun, two prize pigs at an agricultural show in Lyndhurst dropped dead after winning a ribbon apiece...
...border roared U.S. and Canadian planes. The occasion was last week's opening of the new hard-surfaced highway from the border town of Coutts to Lethbridge. It was also the start of Alberta's drive for U.S. tourists. Governor General Alexander, who cut the ribbon, added that he hoped the highway "might happily serve its noble purpose...
Reporter Tabouis, first French newshen to win the Legion's cross* and its little red ribbon, might have had her decoration twelve years ago. In 1936, her appointment had been approved by Léon Blum, then premier. But a few days before the ceremony his own paper, Le Populaire, attacked her as a secret supporter of Franco. So Mme. Tabouis wrote an angry letter telling Blum that she "was not accustomed to being caressed and beaten by the same hand, and didn't want to be decorated...
...Eliot skaters, who won all seven of their games, with Adams and Winthrop tussling until the final game of the season for second place. The Gold Coasters came up with a clutch victory, 9 to 4, last Friday to sneak into a tie for the red ribbon...
...meet attracted skiers from twelve colleges, including Yale, which finished sixth, and Princeton which crawled in next to last. Middlebury carried off the blue ribbon, as it placed four of the first five winners. Dartmouth and Williams also finished ahead of the Crimson...