Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Malone attributed much of his loss to the Kennedy mystique, many of his supporters were not so gracious to the incumbent. As Kennedy's victory speech was televised before the Republican party, shouts of "the Duke of Chappaquiddick" and "go home to your Black friends" accompanied the senator's remarks...
Connick said he thought the best jazz musicians were Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. "They understood blues--they captured the essence of the American experience...
...political campaign comes when reporters, and sometimes ordinary citizens, start asking whether the candidate has already lost and the actual vote has become a formality. That nadir arrived for Michael Dukakis early last week. Following his lackluster performance in the second debate with George Bush, stories appeared that the Duke had effectively written off most of the country to concentrate his last desperate efforts on 18 states with 272 electoral votes -- a mere two over the number required for victory -- in which he still had a chance. The reports were denied, but not very convincingly. One poll taken immediately after...
...Wednesday the Dow Jones industrial average fell 20 points in 15 minutes because of a false rumor that the Washington Post was about to publish a report charging Bush with marital infidelity. The dive illustrated how deeply the financial community fears a Dukakis victory. The next day the Duke had to fire Donna Brazile, one of the campaign's highest-ranking blacks, because she had recklessly told the press that Bush ought to "fess up" to the sexual allegations, which have never been substantiated. At the very moment when he was trying to mount a consistent attack, Dukakis found himself...
...still win," says a G. O. P. pollster. But as Bush holds on to a commanding lead, the Duke needs a big break -- plus more of the populist passion he showed last week. -- Jesse Jackson is back on the stump for the Democrats -- and for himself. -- Nancy Reagan returns some designer dresses. -- Should the U. S. double the cigarette tax? A campaign Essay on health care...