Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Portnoy wears his Oedipus complex as if it were a festering good-conduct medal that had been stapled to his sternum. But his is a tragedy in which Oedipus is played by Groucho Marx. Mother Portnoy is a vibrant orange-haired vision who has never given up trying to smother her son in the warm pudding of her ample bosom. She surpasses the grotesque stereotype simply because Roth plays her absolutely straight, making her totally and comically unconscious of the unconscious...
...Crimson flew down the 2,000 meter course in just 5:54.5, a time bested only by Navy's 1952 Olympic gold medal winners...
Heisler and Purdy carry the best winning percentages on the team. Tibbetts, who normally plays seventh man, tied number one man Bo Keefe for medal honors in the Greater Boston Championships three weeks...
...General Victor H. Krulak, 55, hardly seems the sort to be nicknamed "the Brute." But that's the handle; it's fond and it fits. Strong and scrappy as a wire-haired terrier, Krulak was commissioned in 1934, won a Navy Cross (second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor) in the Solomon Islands in 1943, became one of the youngest generals in Marine history at the age of 43 in 1956, and helped to map U.S. strategy in Viet Nam. He was high on the list of possibilities for Marine commandant, but when that job went...
Jeffers time of 46.5 in the 440 tied the Soldiers' Field record set in 1965 by Wendell Mottley of Yale who won a silver medal in the 400 meter run at the '64 Olympics...