Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given to him earlier by his mother, Kathryn Crosby, a medallion that Bing had won for making the field in the same tournament exactly 40 years earlier. "I definitely felt his presence, and thinking of him calmed me," said the young Crosby. "I wasn't absentmindedly touching that medal. Dad was in my mind all day." -By E. Graydon Carter...
With a strong team effort during the double sessions in the early season, the aquamen should qualify for the Eastern Seaboard Water Polo Championships (at Providence, November 14-15) and better last season's fifth place showing. But first the Crimson must capture at least a silver medal at the New Englands held at Blodgett the week before...
...prisoner-of-war camps during the Korean War; in Berkeley, Calif. Dean was separated from troops of his 24th Infantry Division in 1950. After eluding Communist patrols for 30 days, he was captured but resisted all efforts by the enemy to extract military information from him. Dean won the Medal of Honor but said: "I'm just a dog-faced soldier...
Reagan's approach has a certain show-business tilt. He set out to engender new pride in the military. He ordered more prominent display of the Stars and Stripes. He insisted that the ceremony for Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez, who was belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Viet Nam, be scheduled at the Pentagon, and he made the award himself. Reagan urged that rules on military uniforms be relaxed so that more servicemen would be encouraged to wear them off duty as well...
Breuer received many of the highest honors the profession can bestow in his half-century-long career, including the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1978. In May the G.F.I. Knoll International Corporation sponsored a conference in his honor...