I was pleased (only linguistically!) to see this morning's top headline
in the Boston _Globe_:
Scores of priests involved in sex abuse cases
It's always refreshing to find a good old word popping up in a register
where it has been obsolescent. The lede (sic, 'first sentence of the
article') specifies the number as "at least 70".
-- Mark A. Mandel
Linguist at Large