Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midfield stripe of South Viet Nam, balanced like a football waiting for the kickoff. From the Kannack compound and its adjacent dirt airstrip, some 400 American and montagnard defenders oversee dense jungle, slippery slopes and the crumpled folds of ravines ideally suited for enemy mortar attack. A single ribbon of road leads south toward embattled Route 19, the east-west highway where government convoys are frequent prey for Viet Cong ambushes. Last week the Communists hit Kannack...
...Lodge lamented. "The great tragedy of our age is the inability of free men to create one well-rounded and essentially spiritual view of life by harnessing toward common goals their talents. Sometime, somehow, somewhere, power and responsibility must meet." He endorsed suggestions for the creation of a blue-ribbon "com mittee" representing the U.S., the United Kingdom and the Common Market to lay the groundwork for "true free-world development...
...catch a prince, like Rapunzel, or to avoid a taxing situation, like Godiva, the girl who took down her hair in days of yore never thought twice about the trouble involved. But then, why should she? She had nothing to undo but a braid or a ribbon and presto, crowning glorysville! It is only the modern maid who spends the better part of her days putting up her hair and is not about to take it down until she's good and ready...
Skipper Long grudgingly admitted to a "certain elation" as Ondine's time was logged at 221 hrs. 52 min. and she was assured the coveted blue ribbon that goes to the first boat to finish. Two days later, when officials finally finished calculating the complicated handicap formula, Ondine had also won a fancy silver trophy for being the fastest on corrected time...
...students are not satisfied with the status quo, neither is the administration. Case plans to appoint a blue-ribbon committee to reexamine all University policy regarding student publications. This study will give high priority to the problems of responsibility and freedom of the press. Like any large and growing university, B.U. both needs and desires the critical feedback and dialogue that a newspaper uniquely provides. And despite the periodic administrative frowns that a lively free student press draws, the continuing dialogue that it inspires within a university community is, as Yeo himself said, "the essence of University...