Word: albright
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...quite an experience to be in an Olympic Village," Albright said. "In sport you find a way to communicate with people who don't speak your language. We saw people who came from behind the Iron Curtain, and we shared a lot of the same interests. That really impressed...
After receiving her degree from Radcliffe in 1955, Albright travelled to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, for the 1956 Olympics. Skating to a Jacques Offenbach medley on February 2, 1956, Albright received from the judges eight 5.8s, two 5.7s, and one 5.6, out of possible score...
Those scores gave her first place in the competition, and the gold medal. Albright became the first American woman to capture a Winter Olympic gold medal, and gave the USA one of only two gold medals it would garner in those Winter Games...
...very difficult to describe in words," said Albright of winning for her country. "It's a welling up of all feelings. You feel very strongly attached to everyone in the nation--whether you know them or not--when the flag goes up and the music starts...
...Albright--who wrote a recommendation for Wylie to come to Harvard--also received a degree from the Harvard Medical School in 1961, and specializes in surgery and clinical research at the Advanced Medical Research Clinic in Boston...