Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This season's matches will be scored on a medal play basis, with the top five raw scores of the seven team members being added up to arrive at the team score...
Herbert, who as an enlisted man was the most decorated U.S. soldier in the Korean War, won a Silver Star, three Bronze Stars and an Army Commendation medal during his ten-month tour in Viet Nam. When he reported one torture, he says, "Colonel Franklin suggested that if I was so damned morally offended by that, I should think about leaving." Herbert was relieved of his command on April 4, 1969. The Army says it is investigating Herbert's charges, but he reports that he has been repeatedly told "to cool it," because, as one officer at Fort McPherson...
Cassius Clay hung around Louisville long enough to graduate 376th in a high school class of 391. Then he flew to Rome for the 1960 Olympics, won a Gold Medal as a 178-lb. light heavyweight, and returned home to a reception that "crippled the town." He bought a "rosy pink" Cadillac on time, signed up with a syndicate of wealthy white businessmen, and turned...
...lawyers that convicted burglars, pimps, rapists and sodomites were given licenses by boxing commissions, ruled that Ali's banishment was "arbitrary and unreasonable." Fight fans treated his return to the ring against Quarry in Atlanta like the Second Coming. Ali was awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Medal after the fight, and Mrs. Coretta King said that he was not just a champion of boxing but "a champion of truth, peace and unity...
Before departing for his ski chalet at St. Moritz last week, the Shah of Iran conferred a medal, the first-class Taj, or crown, on his finance minister Jamshid Amuzegar. The dapper, Cornell-trained Amuzegar had led the six oil-producing nations of the Persian Gulf-Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar-in wresting an enormous increase in payments from 23 international oil companies, 20 of them American. In fact the Shah, who had guided the negotiations over the gold telephones installed at his desk and bedside in the royal palace, had good reason to be pleased...