Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke University historian William Chafe suggested that the women's movement has been split over its tactics. While some women's groups hope to advance the status of all women through non-hierarchical organizations which emphasize participatory democracy, others, he said, have sought individual gains over that of the whole group...
...Harvard the college, the 33rd slot in the Great Americanstamp series. As such, the teaching elder whobequeathed his library and 800 English pounds tothe first American college will join the likes ofthe late Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black,attorney William Jennings Bryan, poet T.S. Eliot'04, jazz great Duke Ellington, and writer JackLondon on the top right corner of America'senvelopes...
...says Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Higginson Professor of History. A recent British poll asked citizens whom they would most want to see become president of Great Britain if the country were to become a democracy. Prince Charles was one of the most popular choices, along with his father Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. "He's a very important political symbol," says Peter A. Hall, assistant professor of Government...
Royal-watchers agree that Charles and hisfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, are the most likelyto issue opinions on many subjects. Thisforthrightness is indicative of the new royalfamily, one which seeks to be less formal and morein touch with the British people...
...Charles' time at Cheam was spent inpursuits normal for a young boy. It was there thathe discovered a love of acting after he performedfor the first time in a synopsis of theShakespeare plays. Charles realized the dream ofevery actor when he stepped in for the boy who wasto play Duke of Gloucester, who later becomesRichard III. In a particularly appropriate scene,Charles delivered the line, "And soon may I ascendthe throne...