Word: medals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual spring banquet, put on by the Associate Board, is the year's biggest event. Celebrity alumni like Walburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith can usually be relied on to appear, and the evening always features a distinguished guest who is awarded the Signet's medal of achievement...
Eliot--Silver Medal to alumni Paul E. Wylie '91. Best choice for future Olympians...
While his advisers drew a new battle plan for the fortnight after South Dakota, Kerrey went south to deliver what an aide called "a real hit" on Clinton, the favorite in the Georgia primary scheduled for this week. A Medal of Honor winner who lost part of a leg in Vietnam, Kerrey berated his rival for failing to be candid about how he avoided military service. That makes Clinton unelectable in November, Kerrey insisted. In an awkward affectation of Southern folksiness, the Nebraskan predicted Clinton would "get opened up like a boiled peanut" by the Republican President. But Clinton barked...
...second phase of comic relief occurred when the Callbacks reenacted National Lampoon's Griswold family competing for the gold medal in nothing less than the luge. The ever-present and irksome Scott Hamilton asked the predictable "Where are you folks going now that you've won the gold?" The audience gave the only appropriate response--Wallyworld...
Yamaguchi withstood a strong challenge from Japan's Midori Ito, who lifted the crowd as she courageously hurtled her way to a silver medal after placing a disappointing fourth in the original program. The most famous athlete in her country, Ito had earlier seemed almost crushed by the weight of her flag and the expectations back home. The bronze went to Nancy Kerrigan of Stoneham, Mass., an elegant, imperturbable skater who made a characteristic decision to scale back her jumps in her long program...