Word: pettiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflict escalates and the napalm falls, Americans are driven in ever-increasing numbers to acts of petty thievery. Yesterday's assault on the Lampoon Ibis stands as one of the pettiest. The stolen article is an old bird, metallic in nature and of no value to anyone. Its removal is an affront to the pride and intelligence of its keepers, and to law and order as well. The offenders should be treated like the loathsome degenerates they clearly...
...themselves remote from popular passions and found no embarrassment in having Aaron Burr preside over them after his murderous duel with Alexander Hamilton. They felt responsible only to themselves and their own sense of grandeur-and that sense, taken seriously, may force a certain largeness of spirit on the pettiest of men. They early established the tradition that any Senator, with only minimal procedural exceptions, can rise at any time to speak on any subject, and from this right evolved the Senate's unique place as the arena where a minority can make itself heard. Said Daniel Webster: "This...