Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blast of supercooled Arctic air was expected to rush deep into the country early this week, once again sending temperatures toward zero and below in the Midwest, the South and the East. That might not be the last. "When it stays very cold," said NWS Meteorologist Nolan Duke, "it's kind of setting up a situation where anything else that comes your way is going to be even colder." His colleague Larry Wilson added a disquieting caveat. "These situations," he warned, "can last for a month." For most of the U.S., where even a brief thaw was still...
Sophisticated Ladies. Gregory Hines is a dancing, singing, drum-flaying supernova in this stylish tribute to the dandy of the jazz kingdom, Duke Ellington...
There is much to celebrate. Less than ten years ago, on many college campuses, ΦBK was regarded as odiously "elitist." At Cornell in 1973, half of those invited to join turned down the offer. At Duke University in 1968, the student newspaper balked at printing the list of new members. Today everybody is eager to join, partly because undergraduates again think the distinctive gold ΦBK key may help unlock the door to worldly success. Harvard's chapter, which boasts such notable alumni as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Adams, is flourishing. And when...
Lindberg's self-made men, boosters, gadgeteers, jacks of all trades and "shape shifters" share a love of the game that often exceeds their lust for profits. Even such desperate survivors as the King and the Duke in Huckleberry Finn threw themselves wholeheartedly into their roles. Their shenanigans tended to cloud the fact that Huck relished his own duplicities, and nearly everyone in the book was tricking someone else...
...King and the Duke] vie to establish fictive identities and the manners that should support their roles, they provide a parody of rights and privileges in a democracy, which are gained neither by birth nor strictly by merit but by effective persuasion and show. We never do know who they are. They hint at the underside of the self-made man and self-reliance, the freedom to become whatever others will believe. As they prey on others, they illustrate not what energy and diligence but what spunk and audacity wiE do in a protean society. The jack of all trades...