Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bailing the Boat. Presenting a gold medal to Teacher of the Year Mona Dayton in the Cabinet Room, Johnson expressed his delight in escaping for the nonce from "battles and soldiers and the bitterness of war," praised the Tucson first-grade teacher for having "taken the great outdoors as her classroom and the great desert as her desk." At an Agriculture Department ceremony honoring cost-cutting employees, Skipper Johnson likened the Administration's campaign against waste to "bailing a boat - you have to keep at it; there is no time to rest." Mockingly, he scolded the Agriculture...
...power space walks. Physicist Don L. Lind, a former Navy airman, helped devise a mechanism for measuring "solar wind"-charged particles that flow through space. Youngest of the lot at 28 is Navy Lieut. Bruce McCandless II, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford, whose father won the Medal of Honor aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal...
...breast) lying on a sewing-machine table. Like a pathetic machine, she Yo-Yos pelvically if a spectator peddles the foot treadle. Adding a sardonic note is a call-to-arms portrait of General MacArthur and a sergeant's jacket, bedecked with a good-conduct medal...
Chosen from among art scholars and teachers across the nation, Ackerman is one of the twenty-five winners who will each receive $500 and a medal...
...bulldozers slapping down trees and demolition and chemical teams fumigating and firing tunnels. By week's end, the 2nd Brigade had its breathing room-and 70 confirmed Viet Cong dead-in its first grim testing of the war. It may also have the war's second Medal of Honor winner: Specialist Fourth Class Daniel Fernandez of New Mexico, who died after jumping on a grenade to shield its blast from five buddies...