Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women with no special wealth or influence, little or no political experience, and no uncommon genius, but with the modest combination of commitment to a cause and the facts to make a case." Like the Wizard of Oz telling the lion that he needed only a medal, Douglass W. Cassel, the author of this section, counsels citizens to write letters to their Congressmen, research issues and Congressmen's records in government publications, and organize to lobby. All of these approaches have been long used; the activists will succeed or fail according to a variety of circumstances independent of their dedication...
...Russian hockey team claims to be world champions, since they defeated the Czeche in the last winter Olympics and won the gold medal. However, the Czechs upset the Russians in a spring tournament and claimed the championship for themselves...
Special Forces Captain Roger H.C. Donlon, a tall, sandy-haired soldier who led a heroic defense against Viet Cong attackers in 1963, was the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Viet Nam. Donlon himself was wounded four times in the firefight, but he refused medical aid until his men were treated. Donlon, 38, today is a major serving in Thailand...
...Czech team defeated Russia in the world championships last spring, but the Russians dispute their claim to being the best in the world. The Russians beat the Czechs in Olympic competition, winning the gold medal in hockey. On top of that, Team Canada downed the Russians in a seven-game series played this September and tied the Czechs in a game just after that series...
...given no name. In the first year of liceo (roughly eleventh grade) he finds himself without his stolid lifelong best friend (who flunked the entrance exams), and caught between two new disturbing classmates. One is his proud seatmate Carlo Cattolica, whose "clarity of mind and profile, etched with a medal's sharpness" arouses the narrator's fascination and envy. The other is Luciano Pulga, a scruffy, pushy newcomer to the school "with a physique like a little wading bird's." Pulga is slavishly and successfully cultivated by the young Jew until Cattolica moves against them like...