Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SARAJEVO. Yugoslavia--Soon Hamilton, dressed in the colors of the U. S. flag. Won America's first men's figure skating gold medal in 24 years yesterday at the XIV Olympic Winter Games...
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earned an unprecedented 12 perfect 6.0s and Britain's first gold medal by ice-dancing as star-crossed lovers at the XIV Olympic Winter Games yesterday...
...seconds over Tokyo as an Air Force squadron commander during World War II earned now retired Lieut. General James Doolittle the Congressional Medal of Honor. Other highflying exploits earned him a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Silver Star. Of course, it still takes all those medals and a token to get on the bus. But now Doolittle, 87, has an honor he could use while piloting his car along the lower altitudes of the California freeway system: personalized license plates. Following an act of the legislature, Doolittle and about two dozen other Congressional Medal of Honor winners living...
...invests him with a slightly seedy spirituality by surrounding him with motley religious remnants: an 18-ft.-high statue of the Buddha (flotsam from the hurricane) that he has stashed in his yard; a nuns' shrine to St. Francis that he tends on his island; an occult Mexican medal that dangles from his neck. Spencer's handling of these images leaves the reader conscious at every moment of a high skill and intelligence - indeed, perhaps too conscious. Individual scenes are admirable, as when Arnie's hapless rival Lex, visiting the sanctum of Arnie's island, seeks...
This policy has been vividly illustrated in the case of Drane Mathews, as reported in a recent Newsweek article. A student at the University of Maine at Orono, Matthews previously served in the Army where she earned a Good Conduct Medal, a certificate of achievement, and the Distinguished Soldier's Award. She returned to school and joined ROTC in order to gain the skills necessary for further advancement in the Army. Her career was ended, however, when she asked permission to attend the local gay students group. In justifying its expulsion of Matthews, the military maintained that she could...