Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, they were met with odd looks or derisive comments. Relatively recently, the peculiar predicament of the Vietnam veteran has caught the eye of writers--in the press, in David Rabes plays Sticks and Bones and The BasicRaining of Paulo Hummel, now in Tom Cole's Medal of Honor...
...looking into an immense gun barrel, he is finally admitted to the Valley Forge Army Hospital. Essentially, Jackson can't understand why fate or circumstance or coincidence has allowed him to live when his war buddies became charred heaps during an ambush; why he was decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor for killing 20 enemy soldiers in a fit of rage after seeing his friends destroyed: why his mother who brought him up as a Christian is so proud of his being honored for killing: and why the medal should transform him overnight from a down-and-out "spade...
...pounds." Norris remarks. "That's more than that car the publisher gave us. An extremely nice, gentle man." "And a great Christian--they say he signs his letters 'Yours in Christ.'" "Belongs to one of those Southern sects, he comes from Toccoa, Georgia." "I believe he won an Olympic medal...
Bayi is not the first East African to run into the record books. Kenyan Kip Keino won the 1,500-meter gold medal in the 1968 Olympics, Fellow Countryman Ben Jipcho is history's second fastest miler, and Ugandan John Akii-bua holds the world record in the 400-meter hurdles. Now a veritable army of runners from East Africa is readying for the Montreal Olympics next year...
...pound weight throw was the Crimson's most productive event. Dan Jiggetts heaved the weight 61 ft. 2 1/2 in. for the second-place silver medal and Steve Niemi picked up the bronze...