Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURHAM, N.C.--Three "divers" emerged April 2 from a record 27-day simulated dive to a depth of 2132 feet below sea-level--all in a cramped chamber, not underwater, in the Duke University medical center...
...three divers, Bud, Shelton, a physician's assistant at Duke, William Bell, a fourth-year medical student, and Stephen Porter, a commercial diver from Houston received hundreds of letters and telegrams congratulating them on their achievement...
DURHAM, N.C.--Between 200 and 300 Duke University students receive food stamps, the Duke Chronicle reported April...
...been obsessed with "paying dues," the tradition of enduring hardships and degrading work conditions in order to polish and purify their art. Much has been written about the handful of jazzmen who "came up through the tradition" to achieve international celebrity and artistic and financial success: Louis Armstong and Duke Ellington occupy a warm corner in our popular mythology. But jazz, financially speaking, is a marginal music, and America's margins can be narrow indeed. Ken McIntyre's frustrating experience--he grew tired of getting ripped off, he quit--is far more representative of the jazz life...
...Maugham received hundreds of visitors there during his life, mostly men, later using many of them as material for his books and plays. Here, Morgan's style becomes lighter and slightly disjointed as he skips from one anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that...