Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Third Republic, Pierre-Maurice Rou-vier, casually made his mistress' husband a Legionnaire because "of the special services rendered to me by his wife." Once when he was having bad luck fishing, legend has it, Author Henri Murger (La Vie de Boheme) baited his hook with his scarlet ribbon and said: "Now they are sure to bite. This is something everyone likes...
...charge of manufacturing, Burnham played the key role in a new automation program, systematically changed Westinghouse from a "job shop" type of operation to the latest assembly-line methods, which saved the company millions. On one occasion he whimsically presented an ancient drill press with a 50-year service ribbon before junking it. When he took over the industrial-products division, he launched a study to determine how to make every product more cheaply and simply. His division soon became one of the company's most profitable...
Across no man's land comes the sound of Silent Night-"Stille nacht, heilige nacht. . ." The Germans toss over a boot containing a sprig of evergreen tied with red ribbon, a package of cigarettes, a piece of sausage. The Tommies toss back a Christmas pudding. Then, as the Tommies grab for their rifles, German soldiers appear at the back of the stage. They have a bottle of schnapps. The rifles go down. Everybody drinks. Up in the light bulbs it says: ONE HALF OF BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WIPED...
...hangs a reminder of a recent six-week vacation. It is no mounted marlin or spread of ten-point antlers-only another certificate. "Nay chung-nhan," it begins, which is Vietnamese for "This is to certify," and goes on to let it be known with gold seal and red ribbon that Dr. Grain served this spring as a visiting orthopedic surgeon at the crowded, understaffed Cho-Ray Hospital in Saigon...
...pallid redhead paused in her dance every now and then to tug the string that let a plastic moon pop up from the bushes below. In the branches of a tree on the campus, a girl in red softly sipped from a white teacup that trailed a blue silk ribbon down through the leaves. Painted Coke bottles and sculpture that looked like tiny traffic accidents bloomed in the grass like crocuses...