AT WIT S END Choosing Best Words AT WIT S END
A humorous essay on sports reporting vocabulary contrasts with society page language. The dialogue riffs on how writers avoid the word win using grandiloquent synonyms and mocks inflated sports banter and wedding prose, ending with a quip about persuading an opponent to lose.
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East
Pittsburgh
Vince Lombardi
Dottie
Raiders
Jets
Betty Schmidlapp
Annual Chapel Hill House Tour Highlights Eight Homes
The 1976 House Tour sponsored by the School Act Guild will showcase eight homes in the Coker Hills West neighborhood of Chapel Hill on April 25. Focused on one neighborhood, the event includes a plant sale by Growing Green and raises funds for air supplies and programs in Chapel Hill Carrboro public schools.
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Chapel Hill
New Coker Hills
School Act Guild
Williamsburg
Sandy McClamrock
Lake Shore Drive
Paul J. Kropp
Concordia Ct
Robert Anderson
Beech Tree Ct
Joseph A.lovern
Kensington
John H. Bryan
Kea
Robert H. Fasick
Wellington
Marcus Hudson
Rock Greek Ra
Robert J. Page
Trotten PL
Sandy
McClamroch Jr
Lake Shore
Pat Evans
Cochairman
Carrboro
Evans
Cochai
Needleworkers To Enter Exhibition in Raleigh Mordecai House
The second biennial Needleworks exhibition runs March 18-21 at the Crafts Pavilion on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Hundreds of NC needleworkers and entrants from the Southeast, New York, and California will display works. Becky King will teach two $30 workshops on patchwork quilting and 3-D canvaswork. Entry deadlines March 1. fees vary by division, with insurance up to $500 per piece. mail entries to Mordecai House, Raleigh.
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Raleigh
Mordecai
North Carolina
Southeast
New York
California
N. C. State Fairgrounds
George Bason
Becky King
Canvas Creative
Arison Crafts Magazine
Mordecai House
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