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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Ogden Nash Wrote "The Ostrich" and "The Duck," but Not "The Hen"

We wrote that last week's headline theme is "in the category Holidays. For a hint, we'll say that it should be relatively obvious WHICH holiday we might have in mind this week." On Saturday, we added "There were 12 possible words we could have used; we managed to use seven of them." And here is the solution, courtesy of reader W.M. in Livonia, MI:

This week's puzzle are all gifts from "The Twelve Days of Christmas":

We've Seen This Before, Part I: Trump's Words Ring Hollow

We've Seen This Before, Part II: Lord Almighty, Do These People Have No Awareness of Popular Culture?

We've Seen This Before, Part III: He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune

We've Seen This Before, Part IV: On Health Care, GOP Fears Their Goose Is Cooked

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Visit Vic Fleming, See a Partridge!

This Week in Schadenfreude: Katie Miller Is Not the Lady People Want to Hear From

This Week in Freudenfreude: Coal's Swan Song Is Coming

It's basically a gift of some people dancing and, like, 30 birds.

That's pretty much the long and short of it. Of course, hens, from this headline, are another one of the gifts.

Here are the first 60 readers to get it right:

T.K. in Half Moon Bay, St. Kitts
A.G. in Plano, TX
C.B. in Lakeville, MN
T.F. in Craftsbury Common, VT
S.G. in Durham, NC
R.H. in Corning, NY
G.S. in Basingstoke, England, UK
S.K. in Ardmore, PA
D.M. in Lexington, NC
W.V. in San Jacinto, CA
D.C. in Portland, OR
C.C. in Stratham, NH
J.G. in Truro, England, UK
J.M. in Eagle Mills, NY
E.P. in Windham, CT
M.J. in Oakdale, MN
B.D. in Portland, OR
K.R. in Austin, TX
D.S. in Nashua, NH
B.K.J. in San Diego, CA

N.S. in Fayetteville, NY
H.M. in Portland, ME
B.M. in Chico, CA
J.B. in Royston, England, UK
M.M. in Dunellen, NJ
J.W. in Newton, MA
M.E.T. in Garden City, NY
P.H. in Buffalo Grove, IL
J.S. in Huntington Station, NY
K.F. in Berea, KY
J.J. in Johnstown, PA
K.M. in Olympia, WA
M.K. in Long Branch, NJ
M.S. in Highland Park, IL
J.N. in Zionsville, IN
N.H. in London, England, UK
J.W. in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
M.B. in Denver, CO
D.L. in Uslar, Germany
G.W. in Avon, CT

R.M. in Summerville, SC
A.L. in Atlanta, GA
M.F. in Goshen, KY
T.T. in Conway, AR
K.G.W. in Lafayette, IN
J.A. in Redwood City, CA
A.J. in Baltimore, MD
M.A. in Park Ridge, IL
G.H. in Acton, ME
R.R. in Lancaster, PA
P.J. in Quakertown, PA
C.R. in Cromwell, CT
T.P. in Kings Park, NY
R.E. in Birmingham, AL
M.S. in Canton, NY
B.B. in Bonita Springs, FL
R.R. in Westborough, MA
R.N. in Cleveland, OH
A.J. in Huddersfield, England, UK
J.F. in Fayetteville, NC

The 60th correct response was received at 5:37 a.m. PT on Friday.

For this week's theme, it relies on one word per headline, and it's in the category History. For a hint, we'll say that if a headline word is misspelled on a Friday, that's usually deliberate, and instructive.

If you have a guess, send it to comments@electoral-vote.com with subject line December 27 Headlines. (Z)

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