Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, 74, tenth Duke of Marlborough and cousin of the late Sir Winston; and Mrs. Laura Canfield, 56, granddaughter of the eleventh Earl of Wemyss :and March; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in London...
...this moppet Red River, it is the Duke's responsibility to nudge the boys to manhood. This involves him not only as a trail boss and referee but as a speech therapist. He cures one of the kids of a bad stutter by riling him until the boy can call Duke half a dozen kinds of a son of a bitch without a single stumble...
When the bad guys show up, things really fly to pieces. A grubby band of desperadoes led by Bruce Dern (in a splendidly bravura performance) want in on the drive and the profits. Duke shoos them off, but they skulk along behind the cows, waiting to make a move. When they do, Dern and Duke mix it up, and Dern finally gets the best of it. Aided by Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne), the kids vow vengeance...
Their coach, Bill Musselman, has strangely forgotten to put his phone back on the hook after talking to Big 10 commissioner Wayne Duke...
...these suggestions can be opposed because they involve too many subjective judgments. But it is a joke when Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke says he has to "review again" the films of this week's brawl. Now the players think they can get away with some things but not everything; the administrators should make them think they can't get away with anything...