Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard had some pretty strong teams in those years, including the '74-75 squad that went 12-0 in the Ivies, but B.U. skated away with the titles in the end, including national championships in '71, '72 and '78. With four future members of the 1980 gold-medal Olympic team, the Terriers swept the ECAC flags from...
...political propagandizing, he gained the exalted rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. He was the only Russian in history to have been decorated with five gold stars as a Hero of the Soviet Union and of Socialist Labor, his country's equivalent of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Brezhnev's colleagues in the Politburo had even been known to refer to him as vozhd (roughly, great leader), a title previously given only to Lenin and Stalin. Privately, Soviets joked about the cult of personality that gradually surrounded their President...
...first time that Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing, in Montreal after winning a gold medal in the 1976 Olympics, he said, "My journey has ended. My dream is fulfilled." No one doubted that he meant it or that he would fight again...
Extraordinary indeed. Bob Kerrey, 39, a successful entrepreneur, had never held an elected office. His most spectacular achievement came in Viet Nam in 1969: after leading a Navy commando assault in which he lost half of his right leg, Kerrey was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. As a member of the human rights commission in Lincoln, his home town, Kerrey is remembered chiefly for his unsuccessful advocacy of a homosexual-rights ordinance. Moreover, Republican Charles Thone, 58, was the quintessential Nebraskan of his generation, prudently plain-spoken and a bit stolid. He had won four terms in Congress before...
...train crosses frontiers at night--to restrict our vision, we hear. We also hear stories about Chinese officials who confiscate calligraphies. Mongolians who open cameras and expose film, and Russians who dispute visas because passengers no longer resemble their passport photos. Collecting our passports, the medal-chested officers search our compartments with flashlights, not for contraband, but for bodies. They then dismiss us to change money, U.S. dollar standard, while workers change the dining car and the outside wheels to accommodate the narrower Mongolian track. In the deserted station, the passengers mingle, elated--and shivery. We are relieved...