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"Hagar the Terrible" was the nickname given to the late Dik Browne by his sons; Browne adapted the name to Hägar the Horrible for the purposes of alliteration. After his death, Dik Browne's sons changed the title of the strip to Dik Browne's Hägar the Horrible in tribute. [2] [4] The name is pronounced Hay-gar according to Chris Browne. [6]
During World War II, in 1942, Browne joined the United States Army, and was assigned to draw maps and charts for an Army engineering unit, eventually rising to staff sergeant. [2] In his spare time, he created the comic "Ginny Jeep", a comic strip about the Women's Army Corps , appearing in Army and Air Force newspapers.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
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A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
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Jack Callahan's Freddie, the Sheik (October 30, 1922). Apart from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, little else is known about his early life.In the early 1910s he began working for the New York World, first at the art department before becoming the paper's "crossword artist".