Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common wisdom is that a vote for the lieutenant governor is a vote taken from Dukakis. While Dukakis leaders say they are confident of victory no matter how many hats are in the ring, some of the Duke's supporters fear that O'Neill may not drop out honorably--a stubbornness that could spoil things for the liberal wing of the party, or for the party itself...
Mirage Bowl officials have selected Clemson and one of its Atalantic Coast Conference rivals, possibly Wake Forest or Duke, as a replacement...
...number of years ago, I attended a Clemson homecoming game because they were playing against my alma mater, Duke University. The Clemson band was magnificent, the crowd enthusiastic, the tiger mascot amusing, but, alas, the football team was having a bad season and they lost-even to Duke! On my way out of the stadium, I noticed the usual homecoming banners: BEAT DUKE, BEAT DOOK, BEAT THE DEVILS. Then I saw a large banner stretched across the front of a dorm: BEAT SOMEBODY! I have been a Clemson fan ever since...
...there were still 6 million unemployed, and it was really not until the war that the army of the jobless finally disappeared." "Some of the New Deal legislation was very hastily contrived," says Williams College's James MacGregor Burns, author of a two-volume Roosevelt biography. Duke's James David Barber, author of The Presidential Character, notes that Roosevelt "was not too open about his real intentions, particularly in the court-packing episode...
...virtues and achievements in Roosevelt in Retrospect, charged him with "dilatoriness, two-sidedness (some critics would say plain dishonesty), pettiness in some personal relationships, a cardinal lack of frankness . . . inability to say No, love of improvisation, garrulousness, amateurism, and what has been called 'cheerful vindictiveness.' " And, as Duke's James Barber bluntly puts it, "he cheated on his wife...