FEMININE WORDS
NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS
THE MODERN ARMY
THE DEADFUL GREAT
BILL MURRAY FILM QUOTES
200
'This term used of lady sonneteers is now disdained as condescending'
poetess
200
'Actress Jessica Tandy received the medal the same year as her husband, this fellow actor in the film "Cocoon"'
Hume Cronyn
200
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew walks among some soldiers standing at ease at Fort Huachuca, AZ.) For camouflage, the new combat uniform combines green for forest fighting, brown for desert & gray for this type of place'
urban (city)
200
'In 1872 she was fined $100 for voting in the presidential election; she never paid it'
Susan B. Anthony
200
'"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will"'
Caddyshack
400
'A type of Italian noblewoman, like the "Barefoot" one in a 1954 movie'
contessa
400
'As Brancusi's assistant, Isamu Noguchi mastered this art form on display at a Queens museum named for him'
sculpture
400
'The Edelweiss Lodge in Garmisch is a resort for soldiers on this alliterative type of leave'
R&R
400
'The self-penned epitaph of this president who died on July 23, 1885 reads, "Let us have peace"'
(Ulysses) Grant
400
'"I've been stabbed, shocked, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted & burned... I am an immortal"'
Groundhog Day
600
'Take one letter out of a breaded, fried piece of potato to get this, a woman who flirts to get her way'
coquette
600
'This widely recorded soprano was chosen by Ira Gershwin for the lead role in a 1952 revival of "Porgy and Bess"'
Leontyne Price
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew walks near a scraggly tree at Fort Huachuca, AZ.) The desert conditions around Fort Huachuca help simulate some of the conditions of this operation, launched March 19, 2003'
Iraqi Freedom
600
'In 1853 at age 33, she became superintendent of London's Harley Street Nursing Home'
(Florence) Nightingale
600
'"Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back"'
Ghostbusters
800
'The -ine suffix is seen in words like chorine for a chorus girl & this for a harem member'
concubine
800
'This Texas playwright also wrote the screenplays for "To Kill a Mockingbird" & "Tender Mercies"'
Horton Foote
800
'In the 1980s these Army food packets replaced C rations; old-time soldiers would have loved the chicken tetrazzini'
Meals Ready-to-Eat
800
'The eldest of 10 children, this Irish writer would make June 16, 1904 a date to remember'
(James) Joyce
800
'"C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up... zip right out again... It's like we're going into Wisconsin"'
Stripes
1000
'A man who has left a will is a testator; this is the equivalent word for a woman'
testatrix
1000
'Some distinguished figures in this field include Michael Graves, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown'
architecture
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew crouches near a small plane at Fort Huachuca, AZ.) Soldiers keep an eye on things with a catapult-launched Shadow UAV, short for this type of aerial vehicle'
unmanned
1000
'In 1684 this German philosopher published the foundations of calculus, unaware of Newton's work on the subject'
Leibnitz
1000
'"Once again, my life has been saved by the miracle of lasagna"'
Garfield
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