Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final dramatic gesture, Chau pinned on the green and gold National Order medal he had won for his service as a former Mekong Delta province chief. The decoration, South Viet Nam's highest, bears the inscription: "The nation is grateful to you." Wearers of the medal are supposed to be saluted by soldiers and police, and to be treated with particular courtesy. But when the cops burst in, they unceremoniously ripped his medal off, beat him to the floor, handcuffed him. dragged him down a flight of stairs by his feet, bumping his head on each step, and tossed...
...Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Guinness Poetry Award, and the National Medal for Literature...
...Wyeth? The two men have long been mutual admirers. But Wyeth has been a favorite of Presidents from Eisenhower to Johnson, and John F. Kennedy picked him as the first painter to receive the Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award. Wyeth is also popular with Middle Americans, partly because of his meticulous realism. But the somber, empty America that he depicts is a long way removed from the Chamber of Commerce optimism that is often (and mistakenly) assumed to be the sum total of Middle America's taste. Wyeth's America is often locked...
After his retirement from the Faculty in 1965, Fair served on several governmental commissions studying Great Lakes and New England water pollution problems, heading a research project on improvement of sewerage systems. For his efforts, the Water Pollution Control Federation in 1968 awarded him the Gordon Maskew Fair Medal, which had been established in his honor...
...Vermeule-who was a visiting professor at Harvard last year-also serves as a research fellow at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where her husband is curator of the classical department. In 1968, after receiving the Radeliffe Graduate Society Medal, she left for Greece to participate in excavations on the island of Thera...