Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a Friday afternoon game against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y... The booters will travel to Washington, D.C. over the weekend to participate in the Washington Area Girls' Soccer Tournament. Among the teams they'll face are first-ranked George Mason, 18th-ranked North Carolina State and the University of Maryland. The Eagles will also be playing in the tourney...
...Senate now stands at a slender 53-47, and the chances of its surviving the 1986 elections decrease each time a G.O.P. member announces plans to retire. Those who have done so: Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's Paul Laxalt and North Carolina's ailing John East. Last week Maryland's Charles ("Mac") Mathias Jr. said he too would not run. One of the last liberal Republicans in high office, Mathias, 63, was elected to the House in 1960, then won his Senate seat in 1968. As a drafter of many key civil rights laws, he was proudest...
...Maryland Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1, and to many observers, Mathias' retirement means that his seat could be won by a Democrat, perhaps Governor Harry Hughes. One possibility as a G.O.P. contender: former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick...
...balls under the bed, they are also bound to be awed by the dictionary's staggering scholarship. Virtually every entry is meticulously catalogued for its geographic roots, first recorded usage, evolution of meaning and the most subtle shading of sound. Pronunciation Editor James Hartman particularly prizes manniporchia, a northern Maryland word for the DTs. The dictionary's investigators traced it to the Latin mania a potu, meaning craziness from drink, with the r tossed in from the habitual inflection of the region. "The detective work involved is exciting--to weird people," says Hartman. The white-haired Cassidy, already hard...
Yardling Kristin Bland grabbed the third singles title by defeating Maryland's Kerri Stern in the finals, while Kathy Vigna took fifth at fourth singles...