Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this date I received Death Warrant in your case . . ." The presiding Superior Court judge, the note went on, had set the date for the prisoner's execution, a date seven weeks away: March...
...first Chessman made up for poverty and physical shortcomings by excelling in schoolwork. A schoolmate remembers him as "very argumentative in class. He always talked way over people's heads, and he had a superior attitude toward other students. A lot of them disliked him. Carol never seemed to make friends with nice boys, and he finally took up with some bad ones...
...condemned (including one woman), was sent to the senate judiciary committee. Said Chairman Edwin J. Regan, a Democrat, who scheduled a hearing this week: "I would think that if the bill were not reported out by the committee, that would be the end of it." Meanwhile, Los Angeles County Superior Judge Clement D. Nye set Chessman's ninth execution date: May 2. Just as predictable as the death of Brown's bill in the legislature was the likelihood that California would march toward Caryl Chessman's ninth execution date amid still another great worldwide uproar...
Angry Old Man. King is a superior monologuist, even though his prose is not housebroken and some of his stories seem to have filtered through sewer pipes. In style and substance, he is a throwback to the iconoclastic '20s, one of the last of the angry old men who picked up the idol-smashing habit from H. L. Mencken...
...what He is in His deity He proves and reveals not in a vacuum as a divine being-for-Himself, but precisely and authentically in the fact that He exists, speaks, and acts as the partner of man, though of course as the absolutely superior partner...