Word: maximation
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...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...
...when Mao Tse Tung came to power in 1949, he renewed the interest in traditional Chinese medicine. His popular maxim "Heal the wounded, rescue the dying, practice revolutionary humanitarianism" applied literally to acupuncture and traditional medicine as well as figuratively to Chinese society...
...easiest way to combat inflationary food prices is to apply the old maxim: no ifs, no ands, no Butz...
...German wit L. A. Feuerbach observed, is what he eats. The culinary tastes of Presidents may bear out that maxim. Under Dwight Eisenhower, a state dinner, served with military precision, might feature such Army-wife specialties as Mamie's cherished Chicken Jewel Salad Ring, a cloying confection that included cranberries, celery and almonds, epoxied with gelatin. During the Kennedy Administration, the sumptuary menus seemed intended to rate a star or two from Michelin. Lyndon Johnson introduced Texas ranch-house-chili cuisine to the White House...