Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also sense the sheer range of feeling accessible to Plantagenet sculptors, from the grotesque and grimacing faces on corbels (meant more as effigies of "types" of men than as specific portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly hieratic tomb effigies of dead lords like Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, lying cross-legged and pointy-toed as though about to leap up from the slab, his sword half-drawn from its scabbard to show his readiness to defend the Christian faith...
Forget about the Duke game. Forget about the Final Four...
...Crimson shoved the memory of last year's tournament appearance--in which Harvard knocked off Yale, B.U. and Hartwick before falling to Duke, 3-1, in the Final Four--into a deep chest within a dark closet inside an abandoned house. Forgotten...
...hopes of a large number of people who are not strong candidates for admission to Harvard (b) falsely give the impression that Harvard College is discouraging the application of gifted students by a massive effort to recruit athletes (c) spend a large amount of money--about 4 percent of Duke's recruiting budget is what's allowed (d) utter one single disparaging word about any other college, college soccer program or college coach and (e) offer any guarantees whatsoever concerning possible acceptance, financial aid, special treatment or selection to the varsity team...
...think he's a great football player," said sophomore Duke Pascucci, who often had the pleasure of facing off against Peterson in practice. "He has tremendous leadership qualities," Pascucci added...