Word: spotsylvania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Josiah, 58, inherited the paper from their father in 1949, only 55,000 people lived in Fredericksburg and four neighboring counties. The Star had six editorial employees, type was set by hand, and circulation fell shy of 6,500. Today the population is 134,800 and Spotsylvania is one of the fastest-growing counties in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Star has entered the high-tech age, with 23 computer terminals in the cramped newsroom and an offset printing press next door...
...arrests and fires. But the Star also searches for the significance behind the news, interpreting a freshly passed state law or the impact of a zoning-board decision. The paper began a series in January called "County at the Crossroads," which explores the bright and dark sides of Spotsylvania's growth; one story described how a draft budget submitted to the board of supervisors could more than double real estate taxes. The Star has also disclosed inefficiencies in the nearby Stafford County treasurer's office and detailed the deceptive sales techniques a developer used to sell vacation lots...
...horn-rimmed oracle in the land. Beware. Lest a layman become so emboldened that he or she starts holding forth at cocktail parties without having done the homework, Cerf and Navasky offer the last words of John B. Sedgwick, a Union Army general at the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" -By Donald Morrison
...theater, really. They demand an audience - someone has to hear them, after all. More than that, they have been traditionally uttered with a high solemnity. Some last words have the irony of inadvertence - as when Civil War General John Sedgwick was heard to say during the battle of Spotsylvania Court House, "Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " But premeditated last words - the deathbed equivalent of Neil Armstrong's "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," the canned speech uttered when setting off for other worlds - have a Shakespearean grandiloquence about...
Ashley Halsey Spotsylvania...