Word: award
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...Illinois state employment program for welfare recipients and a Kentucky project that educates parents alongside their children were among the 10 recipients of the Kennedy School's award for the year's most innovative public service programs...
...foremost literary figure in Egypt in the late '40s and '50s, Naguib Mahfouz is the first Arab language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in the 87-year history of the award. His works are known throughout the Middle East for their vivid descriptions and insights about turbulent social change in postwar Egypt, according to Harvard experts on Arabic literature...
Mahdi said he thought the award would lend increased prestige to Arabic literature. Although 12 of Mahfouz's works have been translated into English, they were published by smaller publishing houses and consequently received less attention...
...KING--In 1969, while director of the Urban League of Eatern Massachusetts, King--now one of Boston's preeminent Black politicians--led a protest against the United Fund. King and others dumped table scraps on the head table of the Fund's award banquet--attended by 1000 businessmen--symbolizing, they said, the crumbs they felt the organization had been giving to Black groups...
Eckersley beat out Canseco to win the series Most Valuable Player award. He pitched six shutout innings, giving up only...