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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bouton Will Face Drysdale Third Game of Series | 10/5/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: A Real Rogue | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy League Contenders Seek '62 Championship | 10/20/1962 | See Source »

Katanga's Moise Tshombe is not the only secessionist to break off a piece of the Congo and call it his own. He is merely the richest. In the backcountry, other little fiefs have declared themselves inde pendent in defiance of central government authority. Zaniest of all is ludicrous little Mining State in South Kasai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Exit, King of Diamonds | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...zaniest part of the 1959 season--the National League pennant race--is still going on. It invites your inspection this afternoon and quite possibly tomorrow as well. The Dodgers and Braves played to a dead heat during the regular schedule, and they were still even after five innings yesterday, until L.A. catcher John Roseboro smashed a home run to give the Bums a 3-2 victory...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

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