Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just a little more than a year ago when the Duke marched into the Democratic Convention in Atlanta as a conquering hero. He had just successfully walked a political tightrope, garnering the support of the liberal Rev. Jesse L. Jackson only days after choosing the conservative Sen. Lloyd Bensten (D-Tex.) as his running mate...
...Duke sauntered into the Convention Center with Neil Diamond's "America" blaring in the background. The song, like the speech that followed it, was corny and cliched, but for the first time during the campaign Dukakis was able to make an emotional connection with his audience...
While Dukakis was delivering that speech, I liked him as a person for the first time, and I didn't think there was any way the Duke could lose...
MOST of the anti-Dukakis rhetoric has been cloaked in disgust at the state's ever-worsening fiscal crisis. His critics say the Duke let things slide in the state while he was running for president and claim he juggled the economic numbers to make things here look rosy...
...this week even Dukakis's home town of Brookline has joined the Duke-bashing by bringing suit against the state over the aid crisis. (Yesterday's Boston Globe featured an editorial cartoon in which a toga-clad Dukakis cries "Et tu, Brookline...