Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson will not be playing the same Czech squad that won a bronze medal in the Olympics at Sapporo, Japan, beat the Russians last spring for the world championship, and played Team Canada to a 4-4 tie in September. But it is the team which represented Czechoslavakia in World Cup competition last week, playing teams from the United States, Canada and Russia. The Czechs finished second in the tournament, beating the U.S. and Canada, while losing to the Russians...
...slaughtered them with heavy refle barrages. Another veteran admitted that his platoon followed an order to "Shoot everything that moved" in a village, and then burn it. Interrogators were perhaps most brutal of all. They threw prisoners from helicopters to make their companions talk (one lieutenant received a medal for information discovered this way), disemboweled living prisoners and then shot them, and forced confessions by burnings and beatings...
...FEBRUARY, Hynes received another, more pleasant surprise. He was asked to play on the American Olympic Olympic team, which went on to earn the silver medal in the competition in Japan. Hynes refused. "I felt I had an obligation to Harvard hockey," he said, explaining his decision. "If I had gone to the Olympics; I would have missed the Pennsylvania and Clarkson games, Also. I didn't know whether I could handle the work. Harvard was going to send my exams to Japan. It would have been hard to play Olympic hockey in the afternoon and take an exam...
...sent the wampum to the bureau in a black leather attaché case and had it passed out to the young demonstrators as they finally ended their siege. That was a very long way from 1792 when, as a token of respect, George Washington presented Red Jacket with a medal...
...best in the world, he must still sit back at graduation time and watch the football and basketball heroes pick off six-figure bonuses for turning pro. So what is left for him? Trips to a few A.A.U. meets perhaps-or maybe even a crack at an Olympic gold medal, which for an amateur requires a costly expenditure of time and money for a questionable return. Miler Jim Ryun, for example, spent long, arduous years training for the 1972 Munich Olympics. Then one disastrous spill in a qualifying heat lost him the chance to compete in the big event...