Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pomp and circumstance that surrounded Queen Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh would have greatly pleased her distant ancestor, Charles I, who insisted that "a subject and a sovereign are clean different things." But when the Queen and Prince Philip celebrate their silver wedding anniversary this week, Charles may be twitching in his burial vault at Windsor Castle. As one part of the celebration, Elizabeth has invited to a commemorative service in Westminster Abbey 100 couples from round the realm whose only connection with royalty is that they share Her Majesty's wedding date...
...Bond and All That Jazz. A taped concert from the Philharmonic Hall with the surviving greats of jazz. Ella Fitzgerald. Duke Ellington, Count Basie. Dave Brubeck. Benny Goodman. Earl Hines. Dizzy Gillespie, et al. CH.4. 10 p.m. Color...
...much had happened, too much had changed. The Duke of Wellington once remarked that "a great country cannot wage a little war." Viet Nam. once geographically obscure and utterly remote from almost any American's consciousness, had become, blindly, incredibly, an event almost as important to the nation's culture as its own Civil War. Viet Nam, in fact, grew into a kind of spiritual civil war in the U.S. Thus, even if the physical battle, or at least U.S. participation in it, recedes, its traumatic effect upon the American self-image will persist. The war has gone...
...amused, but the coaching staff and Hanly weren't exactly bubbling over with praise. In fact, they still make Murray walk into Nichols Drug Store in Ithaca every week to pick up Hanly's prescription for a salve to help heal the rash that developed after Murray and "The Duke" intruded into the crease...
Oakland's Gene Tenace, the surprise of the Series, boomed his fourth homerun of the five games in the second inning, to put the Athletics ahead 3-1. Tenace's four-bagger tied a record for most homeruns in a World Series, shared by Duke Snider, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Bauer...