Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam prisoner of war, who vows that he is ready to resign from the Navy in protest. "The price of honor seems pretty cheap this year." Air Force Colonel George Day, another former Viet Nam P.O. W. now stationed in Florida, is ready to pack up his war medals, including the Medal of Honor, and ship them all back to Washington...
...Neil has been deaf since infancy. Her mother, a full-blooded Cherokee, taught her to lip read and helped her through public school in Wichita Falls, Texas. Always athletic, O'Neil began studying diving at the age of 15 with Dr. Sammy Lee, a two-time Olympic gold medal winner. Just when her Olympic prospects looked good, she was stricken with spinal meningitis; doctors said she would be paralyzed for life...
...just came from West Berlin and let me say that the city is definitely alive and kicking-beyond those six blocks on the "Ku-Damm." Surrounded by walls, barbed wire, mines, armed guards with eager trigger fingers and dogs, the West Berliners deserve a medal for courage and tenacity...
...figure cutting across the ice at Madison Square Garden had hardly changed since the Winter Olympics in 1968. After gliding off from Grenoble with a gold medal for figure skating, Peggy Fleming had spent eight years on the ice-show circuit, married a dermatologist and, by last week, decided to put her career into the deep freeze temporarily. The reason: her first child, due in January. "We wanted to have a baby for a long time, but it just didn't happen," said Fleming, 28. "I decided to go back to work and start thinking about other things. Sure...
...suggest that an honorary gold medal be awarded to Japanese Gymnast Fujimoto for his performance with a broken...