Word: medallioned
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...most emotional moment of the returning Nobel prizewinner's welcome by New York came during his reception at city hall, where King, his wife Coretta and his parents were given a standing ovation by Mayor Robert Wagner, photographers and civil rights leaders. Said Wagner, presenting a Medallion of Honor: "This city has welcomed many world-renowned figures, but I can think of none who has won a more lasting place in the moral epic of America...
Some of the most interesting exhibits have been built into the mansion and make the museum seem even more cluttered. Mrs. Gardner imported the columns of her Venetian palace from Italy. She transformed a Renaissance bedframe--elaborate filagree, wrought iron flowers and enamel medallion into a stair railing...
...national award consists in part of an engraved medallion suitable for mounting in a cab. Whether he receives it or not, Sundquist does not expect to become a folk here. As he realises, any attempt to idolise him would falter is the face of compromising facts, like "why I dreve the gay around all day when I knew he was psy chopathic...
...negotiated-and guided through the General Assembly-the plan that established the State of Israel (thereby earning Israel's Medallion of Valor). By now, Pearson had won such fame as a civil servant that the courtly St. Laurent, succeeding aging Mackenzie King as Prime Minister in 1948, brought him into his Cabinet as External Affairs Secretary-and into Parliament as a reluctant politician. Asked on the day he joined the Cabinet when he had become a Liberal, Pear son grinned: "Today...
...matters artistic, Gump's has established itself as a place where people not sure of their own judgment may buy confidently. Bargains are not the house specialty, but not everything is expensive: on the same page in the Gump catalogue, a gold-finished compact with a jade medallion is listed for $13.75 and a jade and diamond ring...