Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camps in Shanghai, the hottest spot in the troubled Orient, where a sergeant's blunder might throw the nation into war with Japan. In such spots, the Marine Corps' mercenaries do the job as they have been taught to do it. Their reward will be another campaign ribbon to pin on the breast of their blue tunics...
Many a Marine post can boast a Marine with the white-starred blue ribbon of the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...surface of its straightaways. The first day dawned cloudy-good luck again, for the Japanese had announced their determination to blast the road off its hills with bombs. During the day raiders came over from their new bases in French Indo-China, and here & there they found the little ribbon and snipped it. But 75,000 coolies were waiting for them, and wherever there was a direct hit, this incredible labor swarmed on to the road and repaired it in a matter of hours. The trucks moved...
...opponent has dropped his racket and pulled out a gun. In Washington Secretary Hull stepped into his press conference, leaned on the back of his chair, and asked, "Are there any questions this morning, gentlemen?" From his pocket he extracted his familiar pince-nez with the heavy black ribbon, put them on, and read a prepared statement: "The reported alliance does not . . . substantially alter a situation which has existed for several years. Announcement of the alliance merely makes clear to all a relationship which has long existed in effect and to which this Government has repeatedly called attention...
There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left...