Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petersburg, Princeling Kropotkin began to learn of the Byzantine rituals of the Romanov court -attendance at court balls, parades, mess dinners, the opera, blood horses, mistresses and some fashionable adultery. But at some stage something went sour. Was it when his father came back from a campaign with a medal for gallantry on his chest? It turned out that the deed that won the medal was actually performed by father's batman. The feudal father saw nothing odd about this. It was his man, wasn't it? explained the gallant old prince...
...Nouveau. When Daniel in the Lion's Den was shown in the Paris Salon in 1896, the famous French history painter Jean-Leon Gerome insisted that it be given a place of honor. When the Raising of Lazarus was shown in 1897, it was awarded a medal and purchased by the French government for the Luxembourg Gallery...
...some reason, the year following an Olympiad is usually one for track's record books. Olympic medal winners seem to work extra hard to prove that their victories were no flukes; the losers muster extra energy to prove that their defeats were. Thus, in 1961, after the Rome games, no fewer than eleven major world marks were shattered. In 1965, after Tokyo, another 14 fell...
...Army because he "wanted some action." He has had plenty. He was awarded a Purple Heart and has been recommended for a Bronze Star for his leadership and courage during a mortar attack on his unit. He shrugs off the recognition: "I couldn't use no medals. Now if it were beer or money, O.K. But what's a medal gonna give...
Miss Moore won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1951 for her Collected Poems. She has received a host of other awards, including the 1951 National Book Award, the National Book Award, the National Institute of Arts and Letters gold medal, and the gold medal of the Poetry Society of America. Her recent works include The Arctic Ox in 1964 and Tell Me, Tell...