Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cool by his deliberately low-key championship of the Common Market cause; he almost seemed intent on boring his countrymen into voting yes. The referendum campaign nevertheless caught fire in its final days, generating as much confusion as clarity. Pro-and anti-Marketeers continued to engage in what the Duke of Edinburgh called a "bout of statisticuffs." Each side drew upon the same meager data to make contradictory claims about the impact of EEC membership upon the British economy. While anti-Europeans argued that a yes vote would be the death knell for British sovereignty, former Prime Minister Edward Heath...
More than a year before the Democratic National Convention, six men have put themselves in the party's presidential race-and four have Southern drawls. The latest to enter is Terry Sanford, 57, the Duke University president and liberal former North Carolina Governor, who last week set as his goal the stopping of the man whom all liberal and moderate Democrats most fear: George Wallace. Indeed, Sanford is one of those increasingly vocal Southerners who believe that their region has much more, and better, to offer than Wallace's demagogic appeal and implicit racism. As Sanford...
...minefield of British decorum, seem endless. Any American who has tried to take lunch at a club in St. James's without seeming to be an absolute plonk in the headwaiter's eye will appreciate Wayne's problem -and perhaps look forward to seeing an exasperated Duke put an end to all that social fiddle by busting a few heads in true American democratic style...
Terry Sanford, president of Duke University and an all-but-declared candidate for the U.S. presidency, came to Harvard last night to explain his program for liberal reform for America and to search for supporters...
...They're surprised that I'm wacky and that I can sing," smiles Actress Eileen Fulton, whose nightclub act at New York's Plaza Hotel includes gospel music as well as Duke Ellington songs. Until now, Fulton has been better known to audiences as Lisa Shea, that cunning mistress of malevolence on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns. In 15 years of televised traumas, Fulton has neatly tucked away three marriages, two divorces, 18 or 19 lovers, two children (one in wedlock, one out), a phantom fetus and a miscarriage. In real life...