Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a demonstration, a petition drive, and even some violence, five video games have been banned from a campus recreational area at Duke University...
...Duke University in Durham, N.C., Larry Kaplow, news editor for the student newspaper. The Chronicle said, "No one much demonstrates down here on anything." South Africa's apartheid policies, Kaplow said, have not been the subject of debate for several years...
...Porgy and Bess has had a curious history. At its premiere in 1935, it received mixed notices and was thought by many to be a failure; yet now it is considered by some to be the great American opera. Blacks were initially offended by its implicit Uncle Tomism; Duke Ellington declared, "The times are here to debunk Gershwin's lampblack Negroisms." Yet black singers have sprung to prominence in its roles, among them Todd Duncan (the first Porgy), Leontyne Price and William Warfield (in a 1952 revival) and Clamma Dale (in the 1976 Houston Grand Opera production). Today...
...commonest cocaine-related ailment, a breakdown of nasal membrane, "is the least of one's worries," according to Dr. Pollin of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Chronic cocaine use kills the appetite and so regularly results in severe weight loss. In a three-year study, Gerald Rosen, a Duke University pharmacologist, has found that metabolized cocaine destroys dangerous numbers of liver cells. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, among other places, have seen evidence of serious lung damage in free-basers...
...years, he is now the star of San Diego's team. Cey has joined the Chicago Cubs. While Brock hit home runs last year in Albuquerque, he has a worried look, and the constant mention of Garvey's name is wearing. If that isn't enough, Duke Snider's name is being invoked too, as in "the best power-hitting prospect since Duke Snider." Brock will be lucky if no one brings up Gil Hodges...