Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Movies of the kind Duke Wayne (the nickname was derived from a dog he once owned) liked to make were made by tightly knit, masculine groups off on their own in some ruggedly photogenic country. The experience of making them under the direction of men like John Ford (who rescued Wayne from poverty-row westerns with Stagecoach) or Howard Hawks (who gave him that first leader-patriarch role in Red River) or Henry Hathaway (who made True Grit) taught him much about craftsmanship and professionalism. Wayne revered them and shared credit for his achievements with them...
DIED. John Wayne, 72, "the Duke" of Hollywood; of cancer; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...Minor and founded a more durable empire? There are historians who theorize that if Napoleon had not been suffering from hemorrhoids and insomnia at Waterloo, he would have had the presence of mind to prevent Field Marshal Blücher's retreating Prussians from joining forces with the Duke of Wellington's English army. Napoleon might then have won the battle and changed the course of the 19th century...
...naive" and "must all be linked in indirect and innumerable ways to the wrongs of the world--through the goods we buy, the taxes we pay, the services we use, the investments we make," he is teaching us to have what Lawrence Goodwyn, professor of history at Duke, called "grace in the face of corruption." Bok has told us that there must be an unavoidable conflict between what we believe and what we do. At the deepest level, our President has counseled despair...
...Massachusetts political upset, Edward J. King stunned Gov. Michael S. Dukakis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, garnering 51 per cent of the vote to the Duke's 42 per cent. State Rep. Michael Connally edged Lois M. Pines in the hotly-contested race for Massachusetts Secretary of State...