Word: maximation
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...fall of 1918 and the first months of the 1919 winter, an unidentified influenza virus killed 21 million people and affected the lives of 1 billion more, or half the world's population at that time. The bug has been credited with being more effective than the Maxim machine gun in blunting Germany's final assault on France in World War I. Practically the entire Royal Navy was kept in port for twelve days nursing more than 10,000 cases, including the Commander in Chief, His Royal Highness King George V. The flu-ridden crew of the American...
...himself emerged as a likely heir to the late Tyrone Guthrie, the swashbuckling repertory advocate who in 1958 moved to Minneapolis and fired up the U.S. regional-theater movement. Apart from the obligatory classics, Brown digs out such unlikely playwrights as D.H. Lawrence (The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd) and Maxim Gorky (Country People). "Gorky's plays are particularly interesting today. His people are activists, revolutionaries...
Kuwait buys the Law School, the Medical School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. David L. "Maxim" Gorski, the new chief of University police, sees Death Wish 15 times and shoots seven students bicycling in the Yard through the knees. "Dave has a lot to learn about how we do things at Harvard," Robert Tonis, Gorski's predecessor, comments...
...take France and her grandmother away to a concentration camp is to steal a gold watch from the dead man--a watch the German had stopped Lucien himself from stealing, earlier, from France's baggage. And Lucien's peasant instincts are part of a whole social outlook whose chief maxim is to look out for your own interests. One man writes to the Gestapo to denounce his neighbor, with whom he may be quarreling for any number of non-political reasons, fishing rights or a stolen chicken; the war allows the continuation of peacetime rivalries by different means. A peasant...
...were a high school teacher in Watts or Harlem. Ford's reply was that Nixon was the only President to resign in shame and disgrace; that, he implied, was punishment enough. South Carolina's James R. Mann, a conservative Democrat, asked if Ford agreed with "the maxim that the law is no respecter of persons." Ford's reply: "Certainly it should be." The gentle, courtly Mann seemed about to follow up the question but hesitated and then said softly, "Thank you, Mr. President...