Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, some of the columnists had discovered a heart of gold beating under his silk shirt. Somehow, said the keyhole-peepers, Lucky from his prison cell had helped the U.S. win the war. The Mirror's Walter Winchell solemnly assured his readers that after Lucky died, the Congressional Medal of Honor would be awarded...
Like Marshall's, Admiral William F. Halsey's cup was overflowing. At Columbia, he got an' honorary LL.D.; in Philadelphia, the local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution handed him its Good Citizenship Medal...
Miss Olson is one of the leading members of the West Coast team, and won the Joffre medal in the traditional contest between California and Stanford last year...
...answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...
Stiffly stuffy Charles de Gaulle last week heard that the French Government wished to present a special medal* to him, Stalin, Churchill and (posthumously) Roosevelt. De Gaulle approved the other three, but bowed himself out with giraffe-like grace. Said he, updating Louis XIV: "Governments do not decorate themselves. The acts that I accomplished were done at a time when I exercised the function of Chief of State...