Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect to die-but hope to do so as ladies and gentlemen. In 110° heat, the Italian minister dressed for dinner each evening, and the wife of the U.S. minister disclosed that she expected to meet her Maker in her dressing gown "with a pink bow of ribbon at my throat...
...actual erecting began on May 7. Bad weather and a series of mishaps threatened to make the July 9 opening impossible. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers and stake-drivers were still working. But at 8 o'clock Governor Furcolo was able to officiate at the impressive ribbon-cutting ceremony, backed by the firing of cannon and the blaring of medieval trumpets...
...Burden specialized in Latin American air transportation problems, was a close associate of Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller. As Special Assistant for Research and Development to the Secretary of the Air Force (1950-52), Burden laid the groundwork for his appointment by President Eisenhower last May to the blue-ribbon National Aeronautics and Space Council...
...last week a ten-member, blue-ribbon committee headed by Utilities Executive William H. Draper Jr. reported to President Eisenhower on the need for the U.S. to step up, not slow down, its military aid to its allies in the cold...
Mueller had blue-ribbon endorsements from ex-Secretary Sinclair Weeks, Strauss, and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, a fellow Michigander...