Word: medalling
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Ball is currently a partner in the Lehman Brothers investment banking firm in New York City. He holds the U.S. Medal of Freedom and in 1968 authored The Discipline of Power: Essentials of a Modern World Structure...
Died. Colonel Alois Podhajsky, 75, director of Vienna's Spanish Riding School (1939-65); of a stroke; in Vienna. Podhajsky was a retired Austrian Army officer and the holder of an Olympic equestrian medal when he became chief of the academy of classical horsemanship in 1939. The star attractions of his performing troupe were 80 magnificent white stallions whose lineage traced back to Spain and Arabia and whose world-famous, high-stepping, dancelike routines dated back to the 16th century. Fearing their capture by the advancing Russians in 1945, Podhajsky asked for help from fellow Horseman George Patton...
...former President Johnson awarded Hesburgh the presidential medal of freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor...
...first list of national awards and honors. A spokesman for President Siaka Stevens, recalling that the country's 19th century nickname was "the white man's grave" because of Sierra Leone's hordes of malaria-bearing mosquitos, said that among the honors would be a Medal of the Mosquito, for conspicuous gallantry. Why? Because the vicious little pests prevented white men from permanently settling in the area and thus forestalled the creation of another Rhodesia...
...first U.S. land offensive against the Japanese when he led the 1st Marine Division onto Guadalcanal in August 1942. For three months his outnumbered men held their ground through bitter jungle fighting before reinforcements arrived, and for his leadership Vandegrift was awarded the Navy Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor. The first active four-star general in Marine history, he served four years as Marine Corps Commandant before retiring...