Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skeptical Canadian authorities had checked up on Buckley's record, found that he was a plain aircraftsman who had been washed out of a pilot-training course in England, then deserted. Fortnight ago, police nabbed him swanking about Toronto in a flyer's uniform with a D.F.C. ribbon...
...golf show is no small shucks. Sandwiched between the Negro National Amateur Open, Joe's tournament, with annual prize money of $1,000, will be a blue-ribbon golf event, tantamount to the white folks' tournament sponsored by Bobby Jones...
...Open (six years ago): the Professional Golfers' Association championship tournament, closed-shop meeting of U.S. pros; defeating Texan Byron Nelson, defending champion, on the second extra hole of the 36-hole final; after the lead had changed four times and the match was squared four times; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level, at Denver. In nine previous P.G.A. championships, Ghezzi had never reached the quarterfinals...
Stalin means steel, but Stalin Line does not mean steel wall. The Stalin Line is an intermittent series of fortifications in depth, a ribbon of redoubts averaging 25 miles across, and too long-1,100 miles-to be solid. It was mostly built in the Maginot era of military thought, and its early links were finished in 1933. But lessons learned on other lines have been hastily applied. Still the Stalin Line has blank spots, and places where lakes and marshes are trusted too much. The Germans seemed to think the Stalin Line could be turned nearly as easily...
Popular with Washington bigwigs. Godfrey raises blue-ribbon horses, is an honorary buck private in the U.S. cavalry, a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve...