Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Squirming Bundles. Describing his pitifully equipped infirmary, Wolken told how he had tied an aspirin with a ribbon and a sign that said: "Prisoners with temperatures of less than 100° lick once, those with temperatures higher than 100° lick twice." Another prisoner-physician, Dr. Ella Lingens, saw squirming infants, which she at first thought were bundles of old clothing, thrown alive into the fires of the crematorium after the gassed bodies of their mothers. Another ex-inmate testified tearfully that this method of killing babies was ordered by the Nazis because there was a severe shortage...
...they went through the forest and chalked the highest hardwoods. Not long after the oxen in jangling chains shafted road and tore the earth as they pulled the felled trunks to the water.... But the stream endured that too, it was granted one last fringe of privacy, one forest ribbon for its sequestering. So the water was left with a rag of honor and nothing of its former magnificence...
...that persons on the lower rungs of the economic and social ladder tend to be more sympathetic to the accused. The well-to-do, on the other hand, are likely to have greater respect for authority and the law. The most elite panel, New York State's "blue-ribbon" jury, is used almost exclusively to hear complex civil and criminal cases. It is composed of persons with high intellectual and technical qualifications. When one New York blue-ribbon jury convicted two criminal defendants, their lawyers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. They argued that since the panel...
...over agree about the urgent needs of Latin America's economy, but the foreign investor's recent tendency has been to reduce rather than increase his commitment there. To speed the southward flow of capital and induce more wealthy Europeans and Japanese to help out, a blue-ribbon group of 100 free-world businessmen met in Paris to launch a development corporation for Latin America that is both private and multinational...
...overlooking the harbor, politics can be as rough as in Chicago. Handsome, greying Gaston Defferre plays rough when necessary but is mostly interested in results. During his ten years as mayor, Marseille, France's second largest city (pop. 778,000), has balanced its budget, won the national blue ribbon for housing construction, and set up long-range city planning that may become a national model...