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Word: duking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke University Professor Peter H. Wood '64 and congressional committee counsel M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: While You Were Away | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...Duke University Professor Peter H. Wood '64 and congressional committee counsel Consuela M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: While You Were Away | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

...Patty Duke and Kenneth Turan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 7, 1987 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Celebrity confessionals replete with stories of loony behavior, backstage debauchery, family trauma and drug and alcohol abuse are all the vogue now -- it might as well be called the Betty Ford Clinic and Famous Writers School. But Patty Duke's contribution to the genre is something special, in part because she speaks with unusual candor, in part because Co-Author Kenneth Turan tells her story with artful artlessness. A child champion on The $64,000 Challenge who confessed at a congressional hearing that the show was rigged, Duke grew to win an Oscar at 16 as Helen Keller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 7, 1987 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...Anna Marie is dead" -- by John and Ethel Ross, who took her from her alcoholic father and hapless mother and forged her career. They abused her mentally, physically and sexually, living it up on her earnings while denying her even a mirror because it might make her vain. Yet Duke, 40, forgives them because they also made her an actress -- the craft that sustained her through four marriages, unwed motherhood and repeated suicide attempts triggered by manic-depressive illness that remained undiagnosed until her middle 30s. She looks back not in anger or self-pity but with generosity of spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 7, 1987 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

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