Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved leg end: ". . . in grateful memory of the glorious liberation...
...General John J. Pershing, 87, at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, went a special gold medal (author ized by Congress) for his "heroic achievements and . . . devotion" from one war through the next...
...well say that Joe DiMaggio is batting so poorly that 14 times out of 45 times at bat he failed to hit a home run. For, make no mistake about it, a gold medal awarded by a California State Fair jury is a home run in wine, and 31 is a lot of gold medals...
Thirteen out of the 20 gold-medal table wines, furthermore, are sold under the name of the grape out of which they are made, as Cabernet rather than claret, Riesling rather than Rhine wine. Pinot rather than Chablis or Burgundy, Semillon rather than Sauterne. American wine names are beginning to make some real headway...
...surprise ceremony, presented to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as chief of OWMR...