Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Creative Writing Department's own book-of-the-week-club wins, I'll be drowning my sorrow in methyl alcohol. James Wolcoff of Harper's (and The Village Voice and New York Magazine and Esquire and the New York Review of Books...) called her last book "oozesome." Give the medal to Wolcoff Still, her name always pops up this time of year 23-1 on logorrhea in the fifth...
...that they have, Tracie and Candy certainly have the best chance in the world to win the first gold medal," she added...
...most prolific economic analysts in the U.S. In 1977 the sum total of his work, on everything from the effects of unemployment insurance on joblessness, to a much discussed study of the economic disincentives to saving contained in current Social Security law, won him the John Bates Clark Medal, a commendation that, among economists, carries almost as much prestige as the Nobel Prize...
...President Reagan announced that he would send Morris Draper, a career diplomat who has been serving as Special Envoy Philip Habib's top deputy in Lebanon, back to Beirut to try to bring about the evacuation of all foreign troops. At the same time, Reagan presented Habib with a Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Habib will return to Lebanon to attend the inauguration of President-elect Gemayel later this month, but has no specific plans after that...
When King Hussein was a 15-year-old prince, a medal on his chest deflected a Palestinian radical's bullet and saved his life. In the same fusillade, Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah was shot dead at the prince's side while entering the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. That was a chilling lesson in the dangers of power, and the quirks of fate, for the young man who two years later would inherit the throne...