UPDATE 1-Few easy words to be had as U.S. Spelling Bee begins

... Many older contestants must bend over to reach the microphone. But 9-year-old Aahil Nishad, a fourth-grader from Danbury, Connecticut, had to use both hands to pull it down to mouth level and tilt his head back as he nailed "mahal," an Indian ...

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