Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anxious to escape the farmer's lot in Prince Edward County, Va., Fuqua borrowed books on radio through the mail from Duke University and quickly obtained a ham operator's license and then a commercial operator's license...
...risen with sleek assurance in the moneyed society of Newport Beach, just an hour's drive by Cadillac south of Los Angeles. He was a power in the Lincoln Club of Orange County, an organization of wealthy and conservative G.O.P. contributors. He hobnobbed with the likes of John ("Duke") Wayne and Donald Nixon, the President's brother, both neighbors in Newport...
...think it could be argued that Solomon should emphasize Azdak's sneering sardonicism less, especially in the scenes before the last, and be more simply sincere at least in his initial revulsion at mistakenly helping the grand duke escape and in his questions to the defendants he plans to acquit. But he turns in a virtuoso performance, and the most important thing shines through it: Brecht's call to action, for another Azdakian era of disorder at the end of which Azdak won't have to apologize for not being a hero or address his Ironshirted attackers as "Fellow dogs...
...made all but the blindest believers wince. One who did not was a young American botanist named J.B. Rhine. After an inspiring Doyle lecture on spiritualism, Rhine and his wife Louisa immersed themselves in literature published by the Society for Psychical Research. When Rhine later joined the faculty of Duke University, he began a lifelong devotion to psychic research. It was he who coined the terms extrasensory perception and psi (for psychic phenomena); it was he who gave his specialty an academic imprimatur by compiling mountains of statistics about psychic subjects who could "read" cards that they could...
...high school All-American from Milford, Conn., transferred to Harvard after one term at Duke, where he averaged 19.3 points and shot 57 per cent from the field in eight games with the Blue Devil freshmen...