Word: medalling
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...translation on those grounds alone. Moreover, the old translation took out all the obscenity and most of the blasphemy in the novel, which left more than you might expect but meant toning down most of the dialogue and eliminating entirely such scenes as Svejk's nomination for a Bronze Medal for meticulous execution of his obligations...
...Gregory Peek, Or|son Welles and the "rather shy and un-happy" Marlon Brando, who in 1946 played Marchbanks to her own favorite part, the witty, warm, older-woman heroine of Shaw's Candida. Not about to be upstaged at home, Kit jauntily raised ANTA'S gold medal to her eye like a monocle while a telegram from the only previous winners of the award was read to "We're so proud," cabled Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, "to be at last in your Company...
Parker has also coached three American Olympic teams culminating with a silver medal at Munich in 1972 won by a heavyweight crew that included six of his former Harvard oarsmen...
...York City's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine was honoring a prodigal son: Episcopalian-born Tennessee Williams, 59. The first recipient of the cathedral's centennial medal acclaiming "the Artist as Prophet," Williams was lauded as "the foremost playwright of our age." But about returning to the fold, a whimsical Williams was equivocal. Born in the shadow of a grandfather who, at the age of 97, was ordained a "High Episcopalian" minister, Williams had allowed himself to be converted to Roman Catholicism during the '60s. "What does it matter, anyhow?" he asked, adding that...
...experiments at Stockholm's Institute of Gymnastics and Sports, Dr. Bjorn Ekblom gave physical education students transfusions of their own red blood cells, which carry oxygen to muscles and other tissues. The result was the kind of boost in endurance that could mean the difference between a gold medal and none...