Word: zaniest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founded in the gold-rush days of 1849, the California court seemed destined to become the nation's zaniest tribunal. Justice David C. Terry (1855-59), for example, was a ferocious Mississippian who began honing his bowie knife on assorted victims as a 13-year-old soldier in the Texas War of Independence. After getting elected to the California court on the Know-Nothing ticket, Terry was jailed and convicted for stabbing a San Francisco vigilante. Not only was Terry freed, he became chief justice in 1857 and promptly killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in California...
...performance that nails down her reputation as a girl worth singing about, Actress Fonda does every preposterous thing demanded of her with a giddy sincerity that is at once beguiling, poignant and hilarious. Wearing widow's weeds over her six-guns, she romps through one of the zaniest train robberies ever filmed, a throwback to Pearl White's perilous heyday. Putting the final touches on a virginal white frock to wear at her own hanging, she somehow suggests that Alice in Wonderland has fallen among blackguards and rather enjoys it. Happily, Cat Ballon makes the enjoyment epidemic...
Even after two unsettling defeats, in which Yankee power had been merely a tter of rhetoric and Yankee fielding had resembled that of the Bums of Flatbush their zaniest, the New York club remained confident of ultimate victory and tain of a win today...
Bubbling Tar. Maybe they hadn't. As it turned out last week, Robert Lewis was the worst, or maybe merely the zaniest, rogue who had yet tried to turn the surging U.S. civil rights movement to his own purposes. He had somehow figured that by complaining of persecution for his championship of Negroes, he might yet coerce Walnut into building that road to his property on Castle Hill. When the cops began throwing his complaints into their "crank" file, he came up with a real nifty...
...varsity soccer team has lost three straight contests, but remains undefeated as an Ivy League team in one of the zaniest loop situations in years. Of the eight Ivy teams, none have competed in more than two league contests. Yet, only two, Harvard and Yale remain undefeated...