Word: zane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tactic: ambush. Public Law 887 was presented to Congress as an Interior Department bill, and the Interior Department unwittingly neglected to tell any of Kansas' Senators or Representatives about it. Last week, while Kansas Citians raged and Kansas' red-faced Congressmen fired off telegrams to Washington, Lawrence Zane, a custodian in the Miami, Okla. post office and duly elected chief of the 900-member Wyandotte tribe, told how simple it was. Said he: "We kept it quiet...
...words of Voltaire, Shakespeare, Thoreau and Zane Grey go up in flames, the watching townsfolk brush tears from their eyes. The city council gets a hangdog look, and the leading Red hunter, Brian Keith, simultaneously loses his girl and his political future. By acclamation, Bette is reinstated as librarian. Storm Center is paved and repaved with good intentions; its heart is insistently in the right place; its leading characters are motivated by the noblest of sentiments. All that Writer-Director Taradash forgot was to provide a believable story...
...deplorable vocabularies. All this may be interesting. But a thought, as troublesome as Geronimo, persists in the reader's mind that the cowboy is perhaps best left as myth. William MacLeod Raine and Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford (whom the authors call a "second-rate practitioner"), or even Zane Grey, that old rider of the purple page, may be -better custodians of the cowboy than two teachers trying to put the brand of their scholarship on the twitching flanks of popular legend...
...Ebenezer Zane, a hardy Marylander, contracted to clear a bridle path across lower Ohio in return for a land grant of 3 sq. mi.-a transaction authorized by Congress and executed by President George Washington (who owned vast tracts in eastern Ohio himself). Part of Zane's Trace became in time the National Road (now U.S. Highway 40), which linked the East with the wide-open Midwest and helped populate Ohio with a swarm of new settlers (250,000 in ten years alone). Last week, some 100 miles to the north, Ohio completed a new kind of link between...
...night late in 1944, when the Zane put in at San Pedro for repairs, Lieut. Wouk and a few fellow officers went out on the town. After all the bars had closed, one of the men remembered a birthday party being given for the boss of a file clerk he knew. "So we all barged in. I made a date with one of the file clerks for lunch the next day. All through lunch the girl raved about her boss, this beautiful, witty, talented creature. Naturally I went back to her office to take a second look, and I made...