Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite surprised to read of your remarks regarding the limiting of free speech of the South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown. One would not expect that a member of the Board of Directors of the ACLU would come out as the advocate of suppression or ideas...
...outline is familiar enough: Southern California childhood (straitened but not so impoverished as Nixon later claimed), Whittier College, Duke University Law School, service as a naval officer in the backwash of the war in the Pacific, successful Republican campaign for Congress in 1946, Red hunting, Alger Hiss, the Senate in 1950 (after a bitter contest against "the pink lady," Helen Gahagan Douglas), Ike and the vice presidency in 1952. Ambrose's account of this progress throws a few details into intriguing relief. The young Nixon ("Gloomy Gus" to family and classmates) was regarded as emotionally pinched but unimpeachably honest...
These two students were among those charged last month with attempting to blockade two of three exits from a lecture hall where South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown was speaking...
What do Harvard, Yale and Wellesley have in common? Aside from ivied halls, all three schools are in the oil and gas business, along with Duke and the University of North Carolina. Together they have anted up nearly $100 million for wildcatting ventures, chiefly in the Gulf of Mexico...
...performances that would be workmanlike or routine elsewhere are sufficient here. What these actors lack in characterization, they make up for in physical comedy, not only in the histrionic gesticulations and cartoonish violence, but also in minute details, such as droll facial expressions. Orin Percus, as the sly, playful Duke Solinus, and Everett, as the witty Syracusan Dromio, deserve special mention...