Word: maximal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here, Mr. Chairman. I find that Mr. Holifield had a press release all printed and written up before he even heard what I had to say. If you want me to come up and testify, listen to me, and then make up your minds." Holifield replied with a maxim oft quoted by Harry Truman: "If you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen...
...been outvoted in the inner leadership, 7 to 4 as Western specialists had suspected at the time (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957). To the routine condemnation of the "loathsome" Malenkov and his allies, Kaganovich, Molotov and Bulganin, Leningrad's party secretary demanded that former Presidium Members Mikhail Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov admit that they, too, had sided with "the anti-party group" against Khrushchev...
These were bold, proud words. But underlying them is the deepest of all De Gaulle's convictions: "Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her." In 1958, obedient to his maxim, glory gave herself to Charles de Gaulle...
Besides the consistently polished singing by both choruses, there were two individual performances of unusually high quality. The first was a very moving solo by John A. Maxim, Jr. in the Heath work, and the other was Thomas Beveridge's simple yet eloquent reading of Mozart's "O Isis Und Osiris." Also worthy of note was the conducting of Fenno Heath, whose clarity and control were remarkable...
...this kind of situation is D.F.L.'s meat. According to Humphrey's favorite maxim: "Power goes to those who seek it." And by defining "seek" to mean the kind of hard work that Republicans dislike, D.F.L. thinks it has the key to power in Minnesota for at least a decade...