Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophomores, number five man Yank Heisler and number six Jack Purdy had their best days of the year as they easily downed their men, shooting medal scores of 72 and 76 respectively...
...lucky fellow who wins this week's 32nd annual Masters tournament at Georgia's dogwood-dotted Augusta National Golf Club will receive a check for $20,000, a silver plaque, a gold medal, a gold locket containing a picture of Bobby Jones, and a green blazer. He will also get a bonus that all the money in the world cannot buy: lifetime playing privileges at Augusta National, the most exclusive and autocratic golf club...
...hero, non-artist protagonist and narrator of Brian Glanville's novel is all temperament and no talent. Geoff Barnes has won a medal for acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but he is no actor. The bed is his stage, and he is good for any number of encores. What he hankers for, yearns after, aspires toward but cannot reach is a more status-bearing life. He writes a play and it is a dud. He enters advertising and discovers he is no good at it. His only true emotion is self-pity; his agony is that...
...involved in international high finance, yet when Figure Skater Peggy Fleming, 19, met a smiling President Johnson in the White House Rose Garden, he hailed her as "someone who has helped us with the gold drain." Peggy had, indeed, as the only American to bring home an Olympic gold medal from Grenoble. And now a properly appreciative L.B.J. added a decoration of his own, reaching up to pluck a magnolia blossom from a tree and pinning it on Peggy's dress...
This year both the French and the Austrians must be delirious with joy. Nancy is walloping them all. In the Winter Olympics at Grenoble, she won a gold medal in the giant slalom and a sil ver in the slalom. Next, in the Arlberg-Kandahar at Chamonix, she won the downhill, slalom and combined trophies. When the tour moved to the U.S., she won all three events at Aspen, Colo. slalom, giant slalom and downhill beating France's Marielle Goitschel by a 1.67-sec. margin in the giant slalom...