Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flying lessons are hardly your typical wedding present, but then the Duke and Duchess of York are hardly your typical newlyweds. Making good on her promise to have something to say to her husband at dinner, the former Sarah Ferguson took advantage of the gift of the Oxford Air Training School, and has already spent four weeks studying for her pilot's license. Last week "Chatterbox One" -- so named by local air-traffic controllers because she chatters away on the plane's radio during lessons -- completed her first solo flight, a full circle of the R.A.F.'s Benson airfield...
...race that had been rated a toss-up, former governor and Duke University president Terry Sanford picked up a seat for the Democrats, defeating James Broyhill, who had been appointed to finish the term of Republican John East, who committed suicide earlier this year...
Murphy, like Dukakis, is from Brookline, and she has earned a M.A. degree from Columbia University, and a B.A. and a Ph. D. in economics from Duke University...
...caught from their visiting aunt. A typical reaction, says the Georgian, was " 'Don't you ever say anything like that. If you came into my office and said that cancer is contagious, it would empty out.' " In desperation, a family member called Dr. Seymour Grufferman, a cancer epidemiologist at Duke University Medical Center, explained the contagion idea and sent him biopsy slides of the victims' tumors...
...state. He has dramatically increased Massachusetts' commitment to education by increasing funding and ensuring that those dollars go straight to local schools. He has also made a substantial commitment to better government, taking a controversial stand for rules reform in the state legislature. Along the way the Duke has not forgotten his commitment to his ideals. Despite opposition from the legislature, he has vetoed the death penalty...