Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., aboard the destroyer Mayrant at a North African port, was decorated with the Silver Star (for gallantry) and the Purple Heart (for wounds). In a heavy enemy air attack on Palermo last August, he had given first aid to two wounded men on the Mayrant's bridge, carried one of them down to a dressing station "with disregard for his own safety" (TIME, Nov. 1). He was wounded in the hand...
Last week Thompson and Chinigo received decorations. From the U.S. Army, which well knows the hazards correspondents face, Thompson got a Purple Heart Medal, Chinigo a Silver Star...
Cragg was proud of his medals, particularly the D.S.C. and the Silver Star. But his mind was on the man from New Mexico. He used to say, "If I could only shoot like Dan Roberts . . . he was the greatest deflection shot in New Guinea...
...scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella, a wedding present . . . screaming the while: 'You'll never have my autograph, woman...
...Division General stooped and gingerly pinned a Silver Star on Chips's collar. Chips, ex-pet of Gail and Nancy Wren of Pleasantville, N.Y., a mean-looking mongrel with the head of a German shepherd and the body of a husky, casually wagged his tail. But things might have been different. When General "Ike" Eisenhower visited the regiment, Chips bit the Commander-in-Chief's hand...