Word: tina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moya Olsen, daughter of Olsen of the Olsen & Johnson comedy team. His own enthusiasm for flying is so great that Mrs. Lear, in self-defense, is taking flying lessons. Their two boys, 15 and 9, are already flyers, and at times Lear has put even youngest daughter Tina, 3½, at the controls...
...from which to stage his escape to Mexico. Unfortunately, the mobster has forgotten to fix the scriptwriters, who permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start out across a gangster-infested desert in the direction of the nearest police station. Groans Actor Cobb: "It's gonna be a long, hot night." He's so right...
...cheered her through spinosity, serriform and caliginous, choked up on chiaus. Only four spellers were left: Stanley A. Schmidt, 14, entrant of the Cincinnati Post and station WCPO (each contestant was escorted by a markedly unobjective newsman from his home-town paper); Terry Madeira, 13, Harrisburg Patriot and News; Tina Strauss, 13, Pittsburgh Press: and 14-year-old Jolitta Schlehuber, Topeka Capital...
...could be pronounced "dye . . ." That pronunciation was wrong, but she was told to go ahead. When she misspelled the word (only one s). judges decided that she had been misled. Jolitta was allowed to try Quincunx. She spelled it, and, in spite of protests from Pittsburgh Pressman Joe Williams, Tina's escort, the deadlock continued...
...24th round, Terry stumbled on another pronunciation tangle, correctly spelled her substitute word. A round later, Tina failed on soubise. Chance for a male uprising-no boy has won since 1954-ended in the 26th round when Stanley splashed into canaliculus. Jolitta, blonde, scrubbed, and pretty in a pink cotton dress that she made herself, easily tobogganed through pogamoggan and rigescent. Terry spelled coruscant and sirocco with no trouble...