Word: smith
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...cheerleaders whose 67 catastrophic injuries were tallied in the NCCSI report, Jessica Smith considers herself to be "one of the lucky ones." From 15 feet in the air, the Sacramento City College student looked on in horror as the teammate who was supposed to catch her lost his balance and fell backward. With no one to catch her, the then 18-year-old landed headfirst, breaking her back in two places. Doctors told her she was millimeters away from paralysis after the 2006 incident. "I'll never fully recover," says Smith, now a spokeswoman for the NCSF. "Everyone needs...
...oldest and most noble civilizations in human kind. Hopefully the writer did not mean the sort of civilization practiced by the U.S. government in unlawfully detaining and torturing people at Guantánamo Bay and in eroding what used to be one of the world's finest constitutions. Charlene Smith, JOHANNESBURG...
...that Jo Stafford had died [Aug. 4] and was surprised that you made no reference to her significant involvement in the late '50s with Billy Graham. Perhaps her most telling song was It Is No Secret (What God Can Do), and this became a favorite with Christians worldwide. Peter Smith, CO. ANTRIM, NORTHERN IRELAND...
...Smith and Bovill are part of a long and illustrious line of spelling malcontents. Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, Teddy Roosevelt and even Noah Webster, father of American lexicography, all lobbied for spelling reform, their reasons ranging from traumatic childhood spelling experiences to the hope that easier communication would promote peace. In 1906, Mark Twain lobbied the Associated Press to use phonetic spelling. "The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet," he once wrote. "It doesn't know how to spell, and can't be taught...
...Smith, for his part, insists that he is advocating only for minor changes. "I'm not saying to people who have actually gone to all the trouble to learn all the exceptions to the rule that they should unlearn it. I'm just saying, let's have a few more variant spellings," he says. And if that doesn't catch on, he has another idea. "In the 21st century, why learn by heart rote spelling when you can just type it into a computer and spell-check?" he asks...