Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn dreams of building a church in Russia with the $79,000 Nobel Prize award he won in 1970. But the Soviet authorities have refused to allow him to receive the money, although he will apparently be permitted to receive the Nobel diploma and gold medal in Moscow next month. At the same time, his writings remain banned, while a campaign of vilification rages against him. In the face of these ordeals, Solzhenitsyn's faith seems to have given him a new serenity, which is reflected in a little-known prayer that may be regarded as another equally eloquent...
...swimmers swimming towards the Olympics as a goal to keep them going. Rich Baughman would be far out to win a gold medal in 1976, and for practice he's working towards the Olympic trials this summer...
...dual meet record previous to this year was 67-6, his Long Beach swimmers won the NCAA college-division championships in 1968, and, after moving up to the university division, finished fifth in 1970 and 1971. He was assistant Olympic coach at Mexico City in 1968, coaching eight gold medal winners, and he will be back in Munich this fall. His Phillips 66 AAU team has won three consecutive long-course titles, and his swimmers have established 20 world records. It's been a long time since he has been used to finishing second, and there is no particular reason...
Petkevich said that he wanted to do well at this, his final world championship. Although obviously disappointed that he had not gained a medal, something he had never done in international competition, his free skating, his choreography in perfect harmony with the Spanish flamenco music accompaniment, brought a broad smile to his face with the posting of the judge's marks...
...should be able to win the gold medal," Bob McManama said. "We need the medal to get the U.S. back into the Group A division. The only problem is that we're throwing the team together fairly fast...