Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply listed the lady lieutenant colonel's schools (Boyles Business College, Omaha, Neb., the University of Maryland Extension in Heidelberg, Germany), her record in ten years in uniform (her present post: chief of the WAC Training Center, Fort Lee, Va.) and her medals (Commendation Ribbon, Army of Occupation WAAC; American Theater and European Theater Ribbons, World War II). The present director's comment on her successor-"wholesome, energetic and efficient" -was also regular (male generals usually refer to their successors as "fearless, brilliant and dynamic"). But it was evident, nevertheless, that WAC brass is still feminine in exercising...
...ribbon-cutting jaunts, none was more significant than his brief journey to dedicate a plaza being cleared by the government in front of the Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexican Catholicism's national shrine in one of the capital's northern suburbs. The ceremony over, the smiling President turned and flung his arms around grizzled old Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez in an emotional abrazo. That gesture to the-primate of Mexico dramatically told the approving crowd of thousands-and all Mexico-how much the historic breach between church & state in Mexico has been healed...
Fair Deal. At Kansas City, Stevenson paid glowing tribute to "your blue-ribbon winner . . . from Independence," Harry Truman, and his "heroic" decisions in the cold war. At St. Louis he made a major speech on economics. He recalled the men who criticized the Louisiana Purchase and compared them to "some men of today who know the price of everything and the value of nothing...
Emperor Haile Selassie last week celebrated a great day in a career that has known many ups & downs. With golden scissors, Ethiopia's King of Kings, Lion of Judah snipped a ribbon and then drove triumphantly across a frontier to add to his domain the former Italian colony of Eritrea, which the Italians had carved out of old Ethiopia in the late 19th century...
...Most of Ike's staff was sleeping, but Ike heard a clamor outside his car, ducked out in his bathrobe to greet some 50 railroad workers, women and youngsters. They called for Mamie, and in a moment she popped out in pink pajamas and dressing gown with a ribbon around her hair. Shouted a male voice: "Boy, Mamie sho' does look good, even in the mawnin...