Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Butler seemed a likely candidate - twice a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, an authentic soldiers' hero. But he reported the plot in detail to the House Un-American Activities Committee, then chaired by Massachusetts' John McCormack, later Speaker of the House. At the hearings, the gobe tweens denied everything, and the com mittee was simply afraid to call titans of finance as witnesses...
...pool, who maintained a composure and dedication befitting someone far in advance of his years, who never wavered from his supreme and awesome committment, in the culminating and most fulfilling act of his swimming endeavor, came home from the NCAA championships in Tennessee with a third place bronze medal in the 200 yd. butterfly. Yntema, who in nine short months amassed thousands of practice miles and rewrote the record book in astonishing fashion, is back...
...Germans, Rickenbacker took over Hall's group-and later the entire squadron-in the battle against the "Flying Circus" of "Red" Baron Manfred von Richthofen. By the end of the war, Rickenbacker had shot down 26 German planes and blimps, and had been awarded 56 decorations, including the Medal of Honor...
...year-old, Williams is rapidly emerging as the man most likely to restore the U.S. to international dominance in the sprints. This week he faces the man to beat in that department. At a Soviet-American meet in Minsk, Williams runs against Russian Valery Borzov, who captured the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint at the Munich Olympics last year and thus won recognition as "the world's fastest human...
...President of Sierra Leone's creation of a "Medal of the Mosquito" [May 21] because the pest kept the white man from permanently settling in his country prompts me to remind him that the mosquito quite happily infected white and black. It was the hated white man, however, who brought the cure for malaria to Sierra Leone and indeed to all of Africa. This cure was enjoyed by blacks as well...