Word: wirt
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...bought a ticket to be scared. They rode the Tilt-A-Whirl, browsed tents of prizewinning fruit preserves and lined up for the cute-baby contest, and if there is such a thing as a time machine on earth, it must be powered by the Ferris wheel at the Wirt County Fair in West Virginia. Back from the war, Jessica Lynch asked her mother and father to take her there...
With 90 seconds left on the clock, senior forward Randie Wirt hit a 12-foot jumper to put the Buffs ahead...
...DIED. MILDRED WIRT BENSON, 96, creator of the eponymous teenage sleuth of the Nancy Drew series, penned under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene; in Toledo, Ohio. Benson spent 58 years as a news-paperwoman and wrote more than 130 books, though none reached the heights of popularity achieved by the Drew series. Benson wrote 23 of the first 30 Drew stories, with the rest by hired writers. DIED. HANSIE CRONJE, 32, former captain of South Africa's cricket team who was banned from the game for life in 2000 for his role in a match-fixing scandal, in a plane crash...
...offer guidance in locating low-profile, high-quality performers (also, the downloads these sites serve up are done so with the artists' permission). For fans exhausted by the frat rock/tot pop dominating the charts, these online destinations are an exciting alternative. "The Internet is like cable television," says Ken Wirt, founder and CEO of Riffage. "Music that appeals to a smaller niche audience can still exist, so bands that are the equivalent of Comedy Central or Animal Planet can flourish...