Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Store directors did themselves proud too with a splurge of fancy displays. Windows and shelves were decked with Georgian grapefruit, imported bananas, chocolates wrapped in tinfoil, gaily-colored candy in ribbon-bound boxes. One big window held nothing but a pyramid of Libby's canned pineapple. But the crowds made mostly for the bread counters...
...later was blown to bits at Salerno, received a posthumous commendation from the Secretary of the Navy. .. . But I rode up on the train from Washington not long ago with a WAVE who hadn't been out of the country, and on her chest was the same .. .ribbon...
Newsman Ruark, who served as a naval officer for three dangerous years in the Battle of the Atlantic, aboard ammunition ships in the Mediterranean, and in the far Pacific, is entitled to wear only the three theater ribbons (with two combat stars) and the Victory Ribbon...
...exceptionally distinguished conduct. . . in a position of great responsibility. . . ." A little self consciously Harriman thanked him. He unpinned the medal after Byrnes left, laid it down. He answered questions as politely and cautiously as ever. But when the newsmen filed out he stared curiously at the bright red ribbon...
...huge gadget was known as the "electronic numerical integrator and computer." Its inventors-Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert-called it "eniac." For their blue-ribbon audience, they demonstrated how eniac could compute the trajectory of a shell in less time than it would take the shell to reach its target. Thus, in a trice, eniac showed its superiority over all its predecessors...