Word: maximal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip: Boy Scouts in Stockholm are sending 1,000 pine seedlings this spring to Boy Scouts in Worcester; Dutch tulip growers flew 250 bulbs to Worcester where they have been planted in the city common. The Vienna Choir Boys dedicated a lullaby to Worcester; and Louis Barthe, chef at Maxim's in Paris, invented a new dish called langue de boeuf à la Worcester (recipe: soak beef tongue for six days in bay leaves, then boil and serve with a heavy port wine sauce...
...only justified monopoly," the founder of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star was fond of saying, "is the monopoly of excellence." By trying to practice this maxim advocated by Founder William Rockhill Nelson, the 72-year-old evening Star (circ. 361,226), together with its morning edition, the Times (353,202), has built a monopoly reaching into 96% of all Kansas City homes, and stretching into communities on both the Kansas and the Missouri sides of the Missouri River. Like the county clerk's office, the Star has become such a public institution that it dutifully prints news items...
...football maxim has it that no team is any better than its defense. In the Rose Bowl game last week some 100,000 fans and millions of televiewers got a good look at some of the best defensive play of the year. The rugged Southern California line, rated one of the best in the nation, stopped the pile-driving running of Wisconsin's Alan ("The Horse") Ameche five times within its 30-yd. line. Running into the same kind of opposition (a total of 48 yds. through the hard-tackling Wisconsin line), Southern Cal turned to another football fundamental...
...Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth-round comeback and knocked Turpin out. Robinson's last ambition then was to win the light-heavyweight (175 Ibs.) title from Joey Maxim (see below). Spotting his opponent 15 Ibs., Robinson, 32, had the title all but won when he was felled by heat prostration last September...
...morally simpleminded" standards of the legion, Kerr continues, would automatically ban the filming of much of Nobel Prizewinner François Mauriac's work, or that of English Novelist Graham Greene, both Catholics. Concludes Kerr, after recalling a maxim quoted by French Catholic Paul Claudel ("God writes straight with crooked lines"): "Art without crooked lines is unnatural art-inevitably inferior art. And in its production not only the creative mind is betrayed; the Catholic mind, in its fullness, in its scope, in its centricity, is betrayed as well . . . We are moving closer and closer to the sort of stand...