Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman of the trustees of Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals. In 1982, he retired his position as Senior Fellow of the governing Harvard Corporation, which he served on for 28 years. Burr now sits on the steering committee for Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration, and will receive a Harvard Medal this week for his service to the University. today. Between Boston and New York the preferred method of travel was by steamer--either for the entire distance through the Cape Cod Canal, which had not been open for long, or more quickly by train to Fall River and thence...
...Mexico City Olympics. That boycott didn't work as well as he had hoped, but he probably gained some satisfaction from the fact that two Black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, held up their black-gloved, fist-clenched hands in the "Black power" salute while on the medal stand after winning the gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200-meter dash...
...even if Jim McKay takes Owens's success to be the lesson of the whole affair, I don't think his gold medals mattered much. Although Owens was probably well aware of the irony as he stood on the medal stand, I'd like to think that he took pleasure in his mere participation at the Games. I'd like to think that he didn't see his medals is a justified attempt to rub the Nazis' roses in the dirt, but as an attempt to show that he and other athletes were above politics...
Richey said he had considered Thayer's reputation a mitigating factor in the case, but he added that the court would not "hang a medal on the lapel of your coat for the breach of trust, for the false statements . . . and the obstruction of justice you have engaged in in recent years." Lawyers for Harris and Thayer asked that they be given community service in lieu of hard time. But Richey said a stiff sentence was needed "to maintain the integrity of our sacred system of justice...
...heart of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, there flowed last week a motley assortment of patriotic props. Goose-stepping soldiers marched in front of children waving hoops and colored handkerchiefs. Leftover U.S.-made armored personnel carriers followed rumbling Soviet-built T-54 tanks. Roller skaters mingled with medal-bedecked veterans, motorcyclists, and workers bearing a picture of Ho Chi Minh hoisting barbells above a legend that exhorted, LET EVERYONE DO EXERCISES IN THE MORNING...