Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many marines suspected that McKean's attack was not without rancor: as a colonel, he was in charge of training at Parris Island in 1956 during the tragic drowning of six boots on a night-time disciplinary march through Ribbon Creek. Although he was not officially blamed, McKean voluntarily retired from the corps two months later, after he learned that he was about to be transferred to Panama. (His retired rank is a so-called "tombstone promotion.") At week's end, General David Shoup, the no-nonsense Marine commandant, ordered the offensive copies of Cavalier back on sale...
Harold Francis Under, 60, chairman of the Export-Import Bank. Wealthy Philanthropist Linder was a partner with Wall Street's blue-ribbon brokerage house of Carl M. Loeb, Rhodes & Co., then president of General American Investors...
...months ago because of "ill health," Bohan, one of the few married male couturiers in Paris, took over. Few in Paris expected much from his debut, and St. Laurent fans were openly hostile. Admitted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "I had a poisoned typewriter ribbon ready...
...only cars we could buy reasonably," a leader of the Rotary program disarmingly explains. Last fall the school installed a model traffic layout in one tots' classroom, and a half-acre complex of "streets" out on the playground. After the state police commissioner himself cut a ribbon to open the new highway, top Connecticut officials gravely watched as little Rockvillians played cops and rodders...
...Czech family who came to the U.S. in 1912 with a process for printing names on tape for labels and industrial tagging. The company developed its own tape machines, began experimenting with decorative tapes. It jumped into the wrappings business in 1927 with Ribbonette, a fast-selling cotton ribbon that curled easily when drawn over a sharp edge. In 1939 it began sending its "Tie-Tie" girls to department stores to conduct gift wrapping schools. After World War II, sales began to boom, will reach an estimated $15 million in gift wrapping sales this year. With the shift to department...