Word: medalic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks after Claudia Losch of West Germany won a 1984 Olympic gold medal with a shot put of 67 ft. 2 1/4 in., Natalia Lisovskaya took that event at the Soviet bloc's boycott-inspired Friendship Games with a throw almost 5 ft. longer. Barred by politics in 1984 from a chance at world sport's most enduring honor, Lisovskaya began training at Moscow's Brothers Znamensky Sports School for Seoul...
...mentioned World War II. "Twenty-three Virginians won the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. You know how many men from New York City won it? Only three. And one of those men had just moved from Virginia." The crowd roared...
SEATTLE--I was on a vacation with my parents in Maine in 1984 when the U.S. Olympic women's rowing team won the gold medal. I remember watching the final race on television in a hotel lobby. The U.S. crew fell behind early, but came back to win by two feet...
...lost his Olympic trial and soon must turn to the other kind. What page of the paper suited this sad specter whose face was flattened by a drunk driver seven years ago? Since then he has garnered six traffic citations of his own, and one Olympic silver medal...
...than 30 years. He has helped all four sons to prosper in Hollywood, and none of them ever found it necessary to fling tea in his face. That may be the ultimate reward. For after some 75 pictures, three Oscar nominations, innumerable charity works and goodwill tours, and a Medal of | Freedom from the President, the 71-year-old star is finally ready to cede the spotlight. As proof, he records a chance meeting with a beautiful admirer. "I suck in my gut, puff out my chest, slap a bicep. In a velvet voice, she says, 'Wow! Michael Douglas...