Word: medal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Manila, proudly wearing MacArthur's Medal of Freedom, Lewin opened a cabaret and became the city's leading sports promoter (including the world's bantamweight boxing championship match in 1947). But he hit the really big money with a gambling joint called the Key Club off Manila's Dewey Boulevard. He was also a generous spender who won friends by donating $15,000 to a polio clinic and giving freely to orphans, lepers, war refugees...
...Aspen, Colo., young (23) Buddy Werner, the U.S.'s best skier, crossed his skis, breaking his leg and the hearts of U.S. ski enthusiasts, who had counted on him to snap Europe's long dominance of the sport, take the U.S.'s first-ever gold medal in the men's events at the 1960 Winter Olympics, scheduled for Squaw Valley, Calif, this February...
With hypercritical hindsight, Anne has now decided that "I was very phony in high school. I was terribly shy, and I got aggressive to cover up that awful shyness." But what bothers her most about those years is the memory of someone else winning the school drama medal. The teacher's explanation-that the winner of her choice needed encouragement more than Anne-still rings false. The grown woman seethes with rage and searches for understanding of her girlhood slight...
...much more than a few sequins, a plume, and her smile. Unknown to most Folies patrons, Lydia Lova is in reality 2nd Lieut. Lydia Danuta de Lipski, one of France's greatest Resistance fighters. Last week the French government prepared to add the Legion of Honor medal to the Croix de guerre with bronze star awarded her by General Charles de Gaulle...
...charge of a U.S. citizen (Rita Hayworth) accused of giving aid and comfort (of a suggestively unspecified nature) to the enemy, and orders them north to Cordura, three days' ride across a waterless waste. On the way Cooper tells the men that they will be nominated for the Medal of Honor, and asks them, for personal reasons as well as for Army records, what made them do the heroic things they...