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Crossword puzzles take the form of a square grid of black and white squares. The goal of this word puzzle is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. (HARTFORD COURANT)
Crossword puzzles take the form of a square grid of black and white squares. The goal of this word puzzle is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. (HARTFORD COURANT)
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Is Obama too smart to be a good president?
As devotees of Barack Obama know all too well, qualities that made him so attractive as a candidate — an affinity for subtle arguments, a tendency to carefully weigh his options — have at times proved less useful in his role as president. That...
Tags: The New York Times, Colleges and Universities, U.S. Department of State, Woody Allen, New York City
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Margaret M. 'Peggy' Herder, secretary
Margaret M. "Peggy" Herder, a former school and legal secretary, died April 16 from complications of an infection at Howard County General Hospital. She was 90. A daughter of a Baltimore & Ohio railroader and a homemaker, the former Margaret Mae...Tags: Ellicott City, Howard County
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Dr. John L. Pitts
Dr. John Leake Pitts, a retired pediatrician who during a long career in public health had been the acting Anne Arundel County health officer, died of cancer Wednesday at his Annapolis Roads home. He was 85.
Born in Roanoke, Va., he was the son of John...Tags: Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Hospitals and Clinics, Christianity, General Practitioners, Anglicanism
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Pressure is a word two-time spelling bee champ can handle
Sam Osheroff admits there's some pressure when it comes to defending his title as the Howard County Library Spelling Bee champion. But once he's on stage, the pressure, he said, will be off.
"I spell for myself," Sam said. "When you're on stage, it's...Tags: Clarksville, The New York Times, Harry Potter (fictional character)
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Bruce R. Kane, engineer
Bruce R. Kane, a retired mechanical engineer whose career in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry spanned more than six decades, died March 15 of complications from melanoma at his daughter's Brandywine home.
The one-time Timonium...Tags: Military Equipment, World War II (1939-1945), Skin Cancer, Roland Park, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Jack A. Lawrence, cryptographer
Jack A. Lawrence, whose career as a cryptographer spanned nearly four decades, died Dec. 19 of pulmonary fibrosis at Riderwood Village, a Silver Spring retirement community. The longtime Columbia resident was 85. He was born and raised in Chicago, where...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Labor Legislation, Defense, Ashburn, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Joan B. Walters, Sun editorial assistant
Joan B. Walters, a former Baltimore Sun editorial assistant who earlier had worked in the newspaper's library, died New Year's Day of heart failure at her Rosedale home.
She was 62.
Joan Barnes was born in Baltimore and raised in Turners Station. She...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Harford County, Heart Failure, New Year's Day, Dundalk
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James 'Biddy' Wood
Baltimore Sun reporterJames "Biddy" Wood, a retired music promoter and well-known personality in Baltimore's Pennsylvania Avenue jazz scene, died of respiratory failure Friday at Harbor Hospital Center's hospice unit. He was 87 and lived in Bolton Hill. Born in Lexington, Ky....Tags: Frederick Douglass, Brooklyn Park, Bolton Hill, Ernie Andrews, Minority Groups
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Gerald "Jerry" Smith, educator
Baltimore Sun reporterGerald "Jerry" Smith, a retired Baltimore County social studies teacher whose career spanned 25 years, died Oct. 4 of renal failure at St. Agnes Hospital. The Charlestown Retirement Community resident was 81. The son of a Hecht Co. painter and a...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Loyola University Maryland, Pikesville, Towson University, Baltimore County
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This column is about … what was this column supposed to be about, again?
"A little ditty about Jack and Diane, two American kids doin' the best they can." Sometimes I get a column idea and jot down a few reminder words as indicated above by the lyrics of John Mellencamp — or Cougar, or Cougar Mellencamp, or whoever...Tags: Garlic, John Mellencamp, Panera Bread Company
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Gerald 'Jerry' Smith, educator
Gerald "Jerry" Smith, a retired Baltimore County social studies teacher whose career spanned 25 years, died Oct. 4 of renal failure at St. Agnes Hospital. The Charlestown Retirement Community resident was 81. The son of a Hecht Co. painter and a...Tags: Loyola University Maryland, Pikesville, Towson University, Baltimore County, Social Sciences
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Alice Gjerde
Alice Gjerde, a retired Baltimore County elementary school teacher who assisted her sons in opening their first restaurant, died of an infection Oct. 18 at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Cockeysville resident was 71.
Born Alice Silletto in Des Moines,...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Hospitals and Clinics, Baltimore County, Dining and Drinking, Locust Point
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