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Calling All Verbivores

Apr 30th, 2008 | By Harold Fox | Category: Columns

Meet Dr. (…)



Calling All Verbivores

Mar 10th, 2008 | By Harold Fox | Category: Columns

Words of the Year
by Harold Fox
Have you heard about the word of the year for 2007?
There really is such a thing. In fact, there are more than one, but let’s start with a particular one. (…)



Calling All Verbivores

Dec 17th, 2007 | By Harold Fox | Category: Columns

 
by Harold Fox
In the preceding number of “Calling All Verbivores”(CAV) you were challenged by two puzzlers from Will Shortz. (…)



Calling All Verbivores

Nov 4th, 2007 | By Harold Fox | Category: Columns

by Harold Fox
To get under way, consider the following puzzler from Will Shortz. It is one of a sort that he regularly poses on “Weekend Edition” on NPR. (…)



Calling All Verbivores

Oct 7th, 2007 | By Harold Fox | Category: Columns

by Harold Fox
Your challenge in the puzzler in the preceding number of this column was to come up with seven words, each of which words to incorporate one of the following three-letter fragments, appearing within the sought word in the order given. (…)



Calling All Verbivores

Sep 3rd, 2007 | By Harold Fox | Category: Columns

by Harold Fox 
Here’s a puzzler to get us started with this number of “Calling All Verbivores.”(CAV). (…)



Creative Writing SIG

Sep 3rd, 2007 | By Harold Fox | Category: News

by Harold Fox
Do you dream of writing the Great American Novel? Or is it a screenplay, short stories, or magically crystalline verse that tickles your fancy? (…)