Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three: Tulelake (pop. 927), Eagleville (pop. 425), Solvang (pop. 800). * The governor's name was no capricious pun; he was named for C. C. Goodwin, a famed editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune, and his middle name, like his father's, was a shortened tribute to Great-Uncle Jesse Knight, a multimillionaire mine owner, and one of early Utah's most colorful citizens. One night in a dream, Uncle Jesse received instructions through a "manifestation" (a Mormon expression for a message from on high) to stake a claim at the supposedly worthless Humbug property. He struck...
...tongue of Pronouncer Benson S. Alleman (accurate . . . alliance . . . ambitious) should have been easy. But to Sandra's great surprise, one girl spelled dessert with an "i." After that, 100 words passed without a slip. Then one twelve-year-old spelled solicit with an "s" instead of "c." After that, the heads began to roll faster...
...afternoon wore on, quietus got an "o," badinage became batonage, and a youngster blurted g-y-r-o-c . . . for gyroscopic and with a despairing cry ("I missed it!") sat down. By 5 p.m. only three contestants were left. Quincunx,'' shot the pronouncer at Naomi Klein of the Yeshiva of Flatbush school (Brooklyn, N.Y.)-and then there were only...
Jean tossed off quidnunc; Sandra got verisimilitudinous. Jean got boucle, and Sandra managed baccalaureate. Then Jean spelled cumaphyte with a "cumo," but Sandra missed with a "cume." Finally, the big break came. Jean spelled abbacy "abbosy," and Sandra got it right. The payoff word: crustaceology. C-R-U-S-T-A-C, said Sandra (pause), E-(pause), OLOGY. "The winner!" cried Pronouncer Alleman-and after the usual flurry of congratulations, a stunned but happy Sandra withdrew with her family for a big dish...
...same habits. Robert Lewis Taylor (no kin to Frank) starts to work at 1 a.m., takes a two-hour nap at 3, works until breakfast at 8:30, then finishes for the day at noon. Between articles Taylor has written seven books, on everything from Winston Churchill to W. C. Fields, also writes occasional fiction and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.* Many another successful free-lancer carves out a specialized area for himself, e.g., J.D. Ratcliff, science and medicine, Howard Whitman, popular sociology. But even the "specialists" go far afield if they come across an article idea...