Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miffed at the absence of the Swiss President, De Gaulle had refused to allow a low-level delegation from Switzerland-which donated 2% of the tunnel's cost-to take part in its inauguration. He even denied the Swiss access to the tunnel, the only link between the ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the French side and the speeches on the Italian. Small wonder that one passionate European Federalist in the audience found the session disturbing enough to break through police lines and fling an envelope toward De Gaulle. As Italian carabinieri hauled him brusquely away, De Gaulle opened...
...Paris Club-also known as the Group of Ten-is a blue-ribbon panel of finance ministers and governors of central banks from the IMF's ten leading industrial powers: Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden and the U.S. The Ten quietly take on study assignments for the IMF (current study: proposals for a new type of international reserve currency) and, when necessary, supplement IMF loans with their own hard currencies. In the latter case, they contribute quotas under an agreement called the General Arrangements to Borrow, which is known as GAB. Meetings: whenever necessary...
...some doubt that Lyndon Johnson could staff his Administration with the high-caliber types necessary for any pretense at good government. Now, after 17 months in office, Johnson has made about 130 top-level appointments-and by any reasonable standard his report card would read "excellent." Among the blue-ribbon picks: John T. Connor as Secretary of Commerce, Henry H. Fowler as Secretary of the Treasury, and retired Admiral William Raborn as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...back to February when the threat of administration censorship of the paper led the editors to demand that students be allowed to control the paper. Threat of a walk-out at that time led Case-who is also publisher of the News-to agree to set up a "Blue Ribbon" committee to study possible means of reorganizing the paper to give students more control...
Velvet Vest. Her statuesque beauty was set off with enormous hats from which dangled a ribbon that the French then called "Suivez-moi, jeune homme" (Follow me, young man). Soon she was wearing a velvet vest embroidered with 240 diamonds. Admirers gave her gilded carriages and chateaux, buckets of jewels, and a mansion on the Champs-Elysées. A U.S. millionaire invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless...