Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great Highway. More significantly for Venezuela's economy, Pérez Jiménez snipped a silk ribbon to open the spectacular new motor speedway running from mountain-girdled Caracas to the sea. The journey to the capital from its seaport, La Guaira, and the neighboring airport Maiquetia, has traditionally been a fatiguing, sometimes hair-raising ride over an insane 18½-mile highway with 311 curves. The $60 million, four-lane autopista is Venezuela's most daring piece of engineering. It sweeps up to the capital in 10½ miles, tunneling mountains and leaping deep chasms...
...appear with every outfit this fall. At opposite poles in fashion are the bulky sweater and the baby sweater. the first recalls the never-missed "sloppy jo" of 1946; the baby sweater resembles swaddling clothes and is often trimmed with a halo of angora or a collar of flowered ribbon. Many are made with low-rounded necks. Especially popular is the scoop neck with the bite-size scallop...
...Dallas one day last week a sharply tailored old man climbed into a custom-built beige Chrysler, and headed through the wahooing streets to the fair grounds. There, with a minimum of speechifying, Bob Thornton, 73, snipped a ribbon with a pair of diamond-studded shears and proclaimed the opening of the 1953 State Fair-the biggest in Texas and therefore, in Texan logic, the biggest in the world. Then, as the calliope tuned up and the first of more than two million fairgoers poured down the midway, Thornton turned sadly back to the city and the unfinished business...
EIGHTEEN fancy Southwestern motels, anxious to give motels a better reputation, have banded together into a blue-ribbon trade association, the Master Hosts. Qualifications for membership: year-round air conditioning, tile baths, a swimming pool...
Rolled Razor. Warner-Hudnut, Inc. of Manhattan began market-testing a new safety razor containing 32 blades in the form of a 40-in. ribbon of thin steel wound about a reel. As a blade becomes dull it is wound onto another roller and a new one slides into place. Price...