Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with one machine gun still firing; a third Jap suicide rammer sent it plummeting into Tokyo Bay in a pall of black smoke. In its seven-minute agony the Cabin had shot down eight other attackers. Air Force officers recommended posthumous decorations for all the crew, and the Medal of Honor for the Cabin's commander, Major John E. Krause, of Elmhurst...
...first day's medal play at Long Island's tricky Fresh Meadow Country Club, Nelson (8t05 in the betting) tried every known form of body English to persuade the ball into the cup. Time & again, he dipped at the knees and rolled with the breeze. He slapped the carpet with his hands, suffered awful tortures on the near misses. He three-putted two greens. West Virginia's Sambo contented himself with a puckered-up Bogart face and an occasional "Woof!" Neither of them sank a man-size putt all day. But Snead felt he couldn...
...Medal for Benny (Paramount) rates a medal for Paramount. The first reels of this John Steinbeck story are a little ripe with folksiness, but along about the middle the picture comes vividly to life...
...heel, whose only possible usefulness to the community is martial. This fact and the picture itself suddenly become interesting when a wire informs the small-town bigwigs that they had bred a hero: Benny has killed 100-odd Japanese, died in the act, and posthumously been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...next day; their town is on the national map and the profits, they believe, can be enormous. They whip up banners on which Benny's name appears much smaller than that of his birthplace. But they can't find Benny's family, to receive the medal and act as peg for the exploitation...