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Article: N.Y. columnist William Safire dies
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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NEW YORK -- William Safire, the conservative columnist and word
warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language,
died Sunday at age 79.
The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The
cause of death was pancreatic cancer, family friend Martin Tolchin
said.
Safire spent more than 30 years writing on the Op-Ed page of The
New York Times. In his "On Language" column in The New York Times
Magazine and more than a dozen books, Safire traced the origins of
words and everyday phrases such as "straw man," "under the bus" and
"the proof is in the pudding."
New York Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said in a
statement: "For decades, Bill's columns on The ...