Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have made it official that he is exemplary, perhaps the best among their 4,797 Regular Army proselytizers: a few weeks ago, in a ceremony at his Eastgate Plaza office on a sunny day as crisp as cold soda, Recruiter of the Year Pat Yasenak had a Meritorious Service Medal pinned to his chest...
Having played baseball for the past 10 years, the catcher last year earned the Massachusetts Division I Player of the Year award and was the only Massachusetts resident to play on the Eastern team that captured the gold medal at the 1983 Sports Festival...
...winners of these preliminary games will compete in the medal games at the Rose Bowl in August. Czechoslovakia won the gold medal for soccer...
...like every time I went out I had to try to set some sort of record." But now the distance runner is beginning to take a long view of things. He once thought an Olympic gold medal would be the ultimate fulfillment. Now he says, "If I go into the Olympics thinking that winning a gold medal is all there is to life, I'm going to be very disappointed." But well before that there is the possible disappointment of failing to qualify at next month's trials in Buffalo. To avoid that, Salazar must first defeat whatever...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace-epitomized the best and brightest of Roosevelt's New Dealers. The accusations against him seemed an indictment of a whole political era, as well as a harbinger of McCarthyite anti-Red hysteria. For conservatives (among them President Reagan, who awarded Chambers a posthumous Medal of Freedom earlier this year), the case had a different meaning. Along with Chambers' harrowing tales of life in the Red underground and his considerable eloquence, the affair dramatized the evils of Communism and the peril its infiltration posed...