Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inherited from Speakers of the past. First, he controlled all committee assignments. Second, only Cannon could recognize members on the floor. Finally, Cannon was chairman of the Rules Committee, which oversaw the flow of legislation. Both careers and legislation depended on his whim. He was called the "Iron Duke of American politics...
...sounds like a rather reedy clarinet next to the French-horn sound of the older crooners, but he compensates for this with a cunning sense of phrasing that has made him a favorite of many musicians (among those who have happily accompanied him are Count Basic, Woody Herman and Duke Ellington). On a ballad like It Was You, he has a knack of letting the song rise lazily above him like cigar smoke. On standards like Mimi and End of a Love Affair, he is in the jazzy, hold-your-hat tradition. No less an authority than Frank Sinatra once...
Harvard's basketball team split its four games over the Christmas recess, winning two at the Connecticut Classic over Connecticut and Yale before dropping single games at Pittsburgh and Duke, to leave its record at 5-4 for the season...
...Duke, Harvard played a good first half and found itself trading by eight. Unfortunately, the second half proved disastrous as the Blue Devils blew the Crimson off the court to the tune of 102-76. Jenkins again had a good game, hitting for 18 points and nabbing nine rebounds...
...people-the house of Hanover, in particular, had a flair of dullness, except when its sons were deranged by porphyria or brandy-and Victoria was one of the few British monarchs to be a wholly singular creature. "She not merely filled the chair. She filled the room," remarked the Duke of Wellington, a man not easily impressed, when he saw her after she had received the news of William IV's death and her own accession to the throne...