Word: ribboning
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...banging vigorously on tattered drums and rusty cymbals. The Andong middle-school chorus, girls dressed up in white smocks and blue pleated skirts, boys in little white caps, blue shirts and white trousers, sang the U.S. and South Korean national anthems. Then, amid cheers, Colonel Tandy cut the ribbon, formally opened Andong's new bridge...
...Ribbon of Sympathy. This fable of love betrayed is told with quietness and simplicity. As in all of Novelist McCullers' work, there streaks through it a ribbon of sympathy for the shy and the lonely, the eccentrics who wait on the margins of life for a touch of love...
...Crittenberger, commander of the First Army, to the armed forces throughout the world. The message circled the globe in one-eighth of a second and when it returned to Governors Island it activated a miniature atomic pile. The splitting uranium atoms then exploded a magnesium bomb, severing a ribbon to release pigeons from a coop. --New York Times...
...best or worst time of the year. For the student who has spent the term diligently probing the depths of New England, seeking pleasure wherever it might be found, it is a time of work, a time when Lamont is discovered, a time when the typewriter ribbon is constantly changed. But for the student who has attended some classes occasionally pursued an assignment, and has a speaking knowledge of some of his subjects, it is a time for exploration, a time when Cambridge, and New England beckon with their greatest charms...
...Even the Republicans weren't mad enough at him to put up a fight. The G.O.P. tried to make Truman the issue and "Defeat the War Party" the slogan; their candidate, a worthy but unexciting lawyer named Robert L. Hunter, preferred to campaign against Kennelly himself as a "ribbon-snipping, do-nothing mayor." Actually, Kennelly had tidied up the civil service and improved the police department a bit, but Chicago's crawling slums were as bad as ever, and crime was still a big problem. His own reputation for honesty was widely respected, but graft still bit deep...