Blog entry by Kina Murnin
Kremlin troops launched two attacks on Kyiv late Wednesday and earlier today - one via the besieged western city of Irpin and another through the eastern district of Brovary, with video showing the moment Russian tanks and armoured vehicles were bombarded with artillery in a devastating ambush and forced to turn back.
Wheel good plan "First, I make sure to do it before my morning coffee, for an added layer of difficulty. I don't have a go-to word, since that feels sorta cheap, but I do generally aim for initial words that are high in either vowel count or the good old-fashioned Wheel of Fortune letters: RSTLNE. If it works for Pat Sajak's crew, it's good enough for me." --Andrew Krok
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said today that Ukraine's capital city has been 'turned into a fortress' ahead of the Russian assault, with about 2 million people - half the residents of the metro area of the capital - having fled as Putin's troops draw ever closer.
The battle for Kyiv is now underway as Russian tanks this morning pushed to within just a few miles of the city outskirts, analysts and witnesses said, though initial assaults to the west and east were repelled as Putin's forces face a long and bloody campaign to try and take the capital.
'Many kids under 5 are still learning how to speak and NYC wants them to do so where the teacher can't see the child's face and the child can't see the teacher's face. These little kids can't get this time back. It's a totally asinine policy.'
Figures from the recent poll, which was taken March 18-21, are similar to those from February as voters are more distracted with economic issues like inflation and gas prices than the Supreme Court nominee.
Seventy-five percent of voters who say they are Democrats want Jackson confirmed as the first black woman on the Supreme Court of the United States. Rather than the rest of Democrats really opposing Jackson, 20 percent are indifferent to her confirmation, while only 5 percent of Democrats oppose it.
According to a previous listing on the University of Minnesota's website, the Multicultural Summer Research Opportunities Program is 'an intensive 10-week summer program in which undergraduate students of color work full-time with a faculty mentor on a research project.'
On Monday, school reps confirmed they were re-evaluating the graduate studies program after a Cornell University law professor William Jacobson filed a complaint with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.
Letters can appear twice: This complicates matters, especially when you're running out of letters to try on word four or five. But letters often recur, as with words like chill, sissy and ferry having been the correct answers in the past.
I understand the argument that there are only five vowels (and sometimes Y), so you don't need to figure those out immediately. But eh, what can I say, I like to know the vowels, it helps me narrow down my options. I've started with ADIEU, but these days I also like to start with REGAL, just to get the E and A information known, and to see if my fave consonants are involved. AISLE is also a favorite for me, using three vowels and two favorite consonants.
The otherwise calm and collected nominee showed emotion and passion when speaking on the topic, visibly shaking at some points, using larger arm movements than in other answers and articulating her words more fervently.
We all know Wordle can be tricky. Start words are key: "ADIEU" is popular, since it includes four vowels, though game designer Tyler Glaiel suggests the mathematically optimal first guess is "ROATE," which isn't a word I'd heard of (Merriam-Webster informs me it's an obsolete spelling of "rote").
'Well, how would you feel if a senator up here said [of] your faith: 'A dogma lives loudly within you and that is a concern'?' Graham asked, referencing a comment that was made toward Judge Barrett during her confirmation hearing by California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Tips and tricks If you're a word game purist, you may want to avoid the following tips and rely entirely on your own instincts. For everyone else who's sick of seeing gray boxes, here are some tips that you may find helpful.
The internship previously set out to 'prepare students of color and Native Americans for graduate school' and includes a $6,000 stipend for participants, according to a description on the school's website.
"It is important to me that, as Wordle grows, it continues to provide a great experience to everyone," Wardle said. "Given this, I am incredibly pleased to announce that I've reached an agreement with The New York Times for them to take over running Wordle going forward."
CHEAT, and try the NYT Spelling Bee "I've been playing around with using FIRST, MANIC or CHEAT to start with. I don't know if that says more about my frame of mind than my word solving skills, but this approach has pretty much led to me solving within three words. (I got PANIC the other day in two!) But I have to say that while I enjoy Wordle, I'm still a bigger fan of the NYT's Spelling Bee, where you're asked to create words using seven letters, and each word has to use the letter at the center of the puzzle. I play Spelling Bee with my husband (he gets half the points to Genius; I get the other half). With Wordle, we play against each other to see who can solve faster. So Spelling Bee just seems nicer." --Connie Guglielmo