Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general's attack on U.S. Ambassador Max Taylor rated headline reaction all over the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 1). By last week, the dust-up seemed to be dying down, but Beverly's story was still a singular achievement for a girl who has yet to be accepted as a regular in Saigon's corps of foreign correspondents and who had been a Tribune correspondent for only two months...
Hitler's art collection is often plainly preposterous. Sharing the racks with Rubens are sexy sphinxes and snake-draped nude dancers of Max Klinger and Franz von Stuck, whose fancy for the Wagnerian concept of total art led them to stud their frames with marble, onyx and semiprecious lapidary and to incise their names in five-inch letters. Among nearly 2,000 lesser art works are monumental glorifications of the autobahns, tiers of titillating, bulky Brünnhildes in the buff, and pleasant vistas of Berchtesgaden. One canvas, called Judgment of Paris, shows three hefty maidens placidly awaiting...
...legendary "Max," Moulin became head of the Resistance movement. He was small, dark and inconspicuous, usually wore a navy blue trenchcoat and a grey scarf to hide the scars that remained on his neck from his suicide attempt. Moving about the country with speed and stealth, Moulin managed to weld together mutually mistrustful Frenchmen of the left, right and center. He created a clandestine press, arranged the sabotage and harassment of Nazi detachments, and drew up plans for massive help for the eventual Allied landings. While the Nazis searched frantically for him, Moulin, nicknamed "the King of Shadows," held...
...nation in this century has tormented itself as much as Germany. One war put it at odds with the world; a second war earned it incomprehensible guilt. German artists, though scorned by the Nazis, learned to turn the other cheek. The cheekiest was the late painter Max Beckmann, who wrote that he wanted to give "our fellow men a picture of their fate, and this can be done only if you love them." Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill could have supplied the words and music...
Indicted by a North Carolina grand jury for committing a homosexual act, Defendant Robert McCorkle pleaded no contest, got a five-year sentence and served only 17 months before being paroled. Max Doyle pleaded not guilty, was tried and sentenced to not less than 20 or more than 30 years in prison...