Word: medallion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim of the latest bombing was Therese Assale, 35, who had fled with her family at the start of the Israeli bombardment. A few days later she returned to the ruin of her home to salvage a blanket, some sweaters and a silver medallion of the Virgin Mary. Three of her friends had been buried alive in the rubble...
Among the other rituals: a "purification" by holy water and a "communion" of bread and wine. Finally the couple fastened blue ribbons around each other's heads-his with a gold medallion representing the sun, hers with a silver crescent symbolizing the moon-and jumped over a broomstick. With that, John Beasley, 26, and his wife Donna, 22, two chiropractors from Marietta, Ga., were declared man and wife...
...killers botch their job, they manage to gash Dave's face. Susan is too horrified to help and not gypsy enough to understand. Dave turns to Sharon, his mother's friend, who has had her eyes on him for a while. After washing his wound she puts Zharko's medallion--which Dave is conveniently carrying-- around his neck. He doesn't object. Nor does he object to her affection--thus he returns to the gypsy fold...
...life, though he hates his father, if anything, more than his grandfather does. When his father attempts to sell Dave's young sister into marriage, the youth turns violently patricidal. The community hides his crime from ever befuddled authority and, in the end, Roberts accepts the medallion and ring that symbolize leadership of this little stateless state...
Sadat also was awarded a Family of Man medallion, just as he and Begin will share the Nobel Prize for Peace. In an acceptance speech read by former Premier Mamdouh Salem, he pointedly insisted that he went to Jerusalem and to Camp David "to establish peace for the entire area." Despite such oft-repeated assertions, both radical and moderate Arabs are concerned that Sadat has, in effect, sold out to Israel. Last week 20 Arab governments assembled in Baghdad in an effort to counteract the impending Egyptian-Israeli settlement...