Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very focused, from early life on. She would set her mind on something and accomplish it," says William E. King, who went to high school with Dole and now is custodian of her college memories as Duke University Archivist. "You expected her accomplishments and you weren't surprised by them...
...Dole's grit won her acceptance to Duke's Women's College, and there, as in high school, she won fame that made her more than simply first among females...
...Women's Student Government President, Dole was the force behind the partial adoption of a campus honor code. King says she was probably the only female political science major in her class...
...achievements at Duke culminated in 1958 with two senior awards which emphasized the two sides of Dole's unusual success. She was elected May Queen, a title awarded for beauty and popularity and signifying the traditional pinnacle of women's achievement at Duke...
After Duke, Dole headed to Harvard Law School (HLS), where as one of only two dozen women she met hostility from the very beginning of her time in Cambridge...