Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympic gold medal with a shot put of 67 ft. 2 1/4 in., Natalia Lisovskaya took that event at the Soviet bloc's boycott-inspired Friendship Games with a throw almost 5 ft. longer. Barred by politics in 1984 from a chance at world sport's most enduring honor, Lisovskaya began training at Moscow's Brothers Znamensky Sports School for Seoul...
...drab room he shares with another kayaker. That separation is not uncommon, even for two-athlete couples: training is so intense that connubiality is discouraged. Officially an army officer assigned to submarine duty, Oseledetz carries an I.D. card that says his task is "to defend the honor of the Central Army Sports Club." The army sponsors one of the two biggest sports clubs; the other, Dinamo, is sponsored by the secret police...
...mentioned World War II. "Twenty-three Virginians won the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. You know how many men from New York City won it? Only three. And one of those men had just moved from Virginia." The crowd roared...
...question all over the country, but it is especially pointed in Texas. The state is highly receptive to Bush's conservative appeals on such issues as abortion, gun control, prison furloughs and the Pledge of Allegiance; in Texas rifle racks can rank with the flag as badges of honor. "If we allow that to be the agenda, we will get beat," concedes Democratic Strategist Greg Hartman...
...husband was executed by the Bolsheviks, was denounced by Soviet authorities and only received some recognition in the years before her death in 1966. So there was a touch of poetic justice last week when Pravda announced that an asteroid discovered by Soviet astronomers will be named Akhmatova in honor of the centennial of her birth next year...