Word: kirkpatrick
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...Terrapins don't win, or don't win impressively. Driesell is made out to be a buffoon. After the Terrapins had compiled six marginally impressive victories in seven games against weak competition in December, and lost the seventh by 20 points at Virginia, Sports Illustrated staffer Curry Kirkpatrick unloaded on Driesell and Maryland with a fairly unbridled display of sarcasm...
...greatest newspaper" was rather the world's gratest. By the time McCormick died in 1955, the list of simplified words, which once ran as high as 80, was already shrinking. Reluctantly, the Trib shot down the sherif and later sank the frater. "Readers," sighs Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, "wondered if Tribune editors knew how to spell." The latest style book retains only a few relics of the Bennett era, most of them now widely accepted: tho, thru, analog. Prime reason for the return to standard spelling is to bring Trib style closer to that of wire services, most other papers...
...Tribune is also restoring capitalization that was swept away years ago by McCormick. For decades, the paper's "down" style decreed orient, soviet, communism. The only medal or memorial allowed upper case was the Purple Heart. Kirkpatrick explains that the return to "up" style was made "as a service to the reader, so he can scan a story rapidly, and important things such as the name of an organization will stand...
When Weinberger was recently promoted to deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, he was replaced by Miles Kirkpatrick, a 52-year-old Philadelphia lawyer. Kirkpatrick in 1969 headed an American Bar Association study group that severely criticized the FTC. Since he took over a month ago, the FTC has been proposing or issuing orders that, if they survive the inevitable challenges in court, will radically change many marketing practices...
Gonzalez also took his match with sophomore Bill Kirkpatrick in four games...