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| Search for WA teen missing in gravel pit pond Thu, 17 May 2012 06:50:29 GMT BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) -- Skagit County sheriff's officers and divers have spent hours searching a gravel pit pond north of Burlington, Wash., for a teen who disappeared there while swimming with friends.... |
| Parents of slain armored car guard file suit Thu, 17 May 2012 05:28:28 GMT TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- The parents of a Loomis armored car guard killed in June 2009 have sued Washington state, contending corrections officers didn't do enough to monitor the gunman.... |
| Bremerton WA raises city hen limit; 5 now OK Thu, 17 May 2012 04:41:46 GMT BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) -- Now that it has embraced chickens in the city, the Bremerton City Council is fine-tuning its poultry policy.... |
| 3 arrests in Wash. 'obituary burglaries' Thu, 17 May 2012 03:29:02 GMT EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- A Snohomish County, Wash., sheriff's spokeswoman says three people have been arrested in connection with area burglaries that seemed to be related to obituary postings.... |
| Teen's body recovered from Wash.'s Chehalis River Thu, 17 May 2012 01:50:07 GMT ROCHESTER, Wash. (AP) -- Thurston County sheriff's divers have recovered the body of a 16-year-old boy from the Chehalis River near Rochester, Wash.... |
| Wash. car prowler takes nothing, leaves tortillas Thu, 17 May 2012 01:27:19 GMT SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle police are scratching their heads about this one.... |
| Wildlife group sues for bat-disease documents Wed, 16 May 2012 23:49:10 GMT HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A wildlife advocacy group sued the U.S. Forest Service Wednesday for the release of documents on how the agency plans to keep a disease that has already killed millions of bats in the U.S. and Canada from spreading to the Northern Rocky Mountains.... |
| Skechers settles with WA over false advertising Wed, 16 May 2012 23:27:16 GMT SEATTLE (AP) -- Washington state residents who bought a Skechers shoe that promised toned buttocks will be able to get a refund.... |
| Susan Powell looms over Wash. voyeurism conviction Wed, 16 May 2012 23:14:27 GMT TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- Inside the jury room, the case had nothing to do with Susan Powell. Outside, it was all about her.... |
| Malnourished Washington boy, 2, on life support Wed, 16 May 2012 23:23:18 GMT SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A 2-year-old Washington boy who authorities say was so malnourished he weighed less than half as much as a normal child his age remained on life support Wednesday after his heart stopped and he was airlifted to a Spokane hospital.... |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.