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Word: zestiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset, but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer, and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white-hot verbal thrusts. As a footnote to Julie's new success, the film offers a wry bit of casting: one minor character, Sister Sophia, is played by Marni Nixon, who dubbed in some of Audrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: R-H Positive | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...that sticky problem will be resolved, no New Yorker yet pretended to know. But however the G.O.P. settled its internal dilemma, there was no question that the Senate race this fall would be the zestiest the state has seen in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: A Three-Way Race? | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

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