Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forever Glorious." Along with the political consultations came the inescapable demands of international conviviality. At the social climax of the conference, French President René Coty's dinner at the Elysée Palace, Ike appeared resplendent in midnight-blue tails, the red breast ribbon of the Legion of Honor and France's highest decoration for soldiers, the Médaille Militaire. Sitting next to Coty's English-speaking daughter Genevieve Egloff, the only woman among 167 men, Ike heard himself toasted as "a chief forever glorious," chatted with animation until nearly eleven o'clock. Shortly...
...Ribbon-Happy Pols. The Arab fanatics are the terroristic fellaghas who have converted every isolated colonial's farmhouse, every road, every French-employed work gang into a guerrilla front line. A bout of fellagha Mau-Mauism periodically drives the local European population into a frenzy. Whole villages go on "gook-hunts." Says Servan-Schreiber: "The police and the army are helpless ... so they let the wave pass, hoping that the Arabs are not fools enough to stay out of doors. In a small town, by the time the fun is over, there will be two or three of them...
...French army, inertia, poor pay, bad quarters and a casual official unconcern for the soldiers' dependents back home sap morale. Most of the generals, according to Servan-Schreiber, are ribbon-happy pols who insist on military operations in keeping with their inflated status even when their sectors contain no one in particular to shoot-except innocents...
...engraved with "The President's House") and gold-rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling, frozen Nesselrode cream with brandied sauce) the President of the U.S., wearing the ribbon and medal of Britain's Order of Merit, rose to toast the Queen. "There have been a few times in my life," said Dwight Eisenhower, "when I have wished that the gift of eloquence might have been conferred upon me. This evening is one of those times . . . Each...
Prime Minister Balewa, who wore the red ribbon of a Commander of the British Empire, pleaded for unity among Nigeria's diversified tribal unities. On hand to approve his plea were the King of Lagos, resplendent in purple robes and a helmet-shaped crown of gold beads; turbaned Alhaji Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi...