Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carries the standard of freedom everywhere in the world, we will also be carrying the standard of progress here in Oklahoma." There were some perfunctory pats for Bob Kerr, Senator Mike Monroney and Representative Carl Albert. Then the President snipped a ribbon across the newly completed highway...
...other dog shows (101 Dalmatians and Nikki, Wild Dog of the North) so far in 1961, offers this glossy rebrush of the book. Children will do well to sit up and beg for the film, and even grown-up judges may affectionately award it a tear-soaked blue ribbon. Actor Mackenzie is wonderfully canty and touching as Auld Jock-and as a muttinee idol the Skye's the limit...
...socialize with businessmen as Eisenhower did, and the pro-business Washington atmosphere of the Ike era has been replaced by what is, at best, watchful neutralism. Businessmen were angered when Attorney General Bobby Kennedy flailed them for "moral laxity" and again when Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges labeled the blue-ribbon Business Advisory Council "stuffy as hell."* To business leaders, who originally thought of him as one of their own, Hodges has been a particular disappointment. Last week, at the insistence of a powerful California businessman, Hodges' name was pointedly dropped from the invitation list to the big International Industrial...
...familiar 88 alphabetical characters, numerals and punctuation symbols. When the typist strikes the keyboard, the typewriter's motor rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon and paper to print the character. This is essentially the same principle used by the Dow-Jones business-news ticker and the old Hammond typewriter...
Poor Adjustment. When he retired in 1928, Cobb's financial future was assured: he. had invested much of his salary (up to $60,000 a year) in blue-ribbon stocks -among them Coca-Cola and General Motors. But he adjusted poorly to retirement, restlessly moved from California to Nevada and then back to his native Georgia. "You cannot eat baseball and sleep baseball and study baseball year after year and then just stop like that," he once explained. "It's in the bloodstream. You crave it. You can't get along without...