Word: maximation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably had no involvement in some of the more spectacular phonies foisted on the West. The so-called "memoir" by the late Maxim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Commissar, was actually produced by a Soviet defector in Paris, while The Penkovsky Papers, purportedly the diaries of a spy in the upper echelon of the Soviet intelligence system who was caught and shot, were allegedly partly concocted...
...fact that white men had been in the landing party infuriated other black African governments. Their reaction recalled a Touré maxim from the early 1960s, when Pan-Africanism was more vibrant than it is now: "Africa is like a human body. If one finger is cut, the whole body feels the pain." Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan...
...Harvard was supposed to be this year, there was little doubt that Northeastern was worse-until the kick-off. The Crimson offense ran true to Woody Hayes's maxim "three yards in a cloud of dust," but it forgot the three yards. After ten minutes, it looked like our long gainer this season was a fake punt. When we ran an end sweep, people thought Blankenship was shifting over to lone...
...honest man has no need to flee the law, as the maxim says, does a disinclination to run indicate innocence...
...Edsel II, a student of business at Massachusetts' Babson Institute. He told his daughters about his impending marriage to his second wife Cristina only 24 hours before it occurred. He met Cristina, a blonde Italian divorcee who looks like a Mediterranean Ingrid Bergman, in 1960 at a party in Maxim's in Paris. In 1964, when he was divorced by his wife of 23 years, the former Anne McDonnell, Ford incurred heavy criticism, which he characteristically ignored. Ford seems delighted with Cristina but has disappointed her in one way: she is a physical-fitness devotee who grieves that Ford refuses...