Word: maximation
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...real war-games buffs sail into the blue of their own inventions. As long ago as 1914 H. G. Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...
That same day: Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff arrived in Washington by plane to take up his duties as Russian Ambassador; in the indignation over the Jap attack, the ruling of the President's coal arbitration board that all captive coalmine workers must join John Lewis' U.M.W. was lost in the shuffle. Day before, Frank Knox, in his annual report, rated the U.S. Navy "second to none...
...Argument. Basic facts in the argument were set forth in TIME, Aug. 10. The first of Russia's public appeals for a second front came from Maxim Litvinoff 14 months ago. Four months ago Winston Churchill got around to acknowledging the second-front agitation, saying that he welcomed the "militant, aggressive spirit . . . and the general desire to come to the closest grips with the enemy." Three months ago London and Washington announced that full understanding had been reached "with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe...
...stories of the men who turned back the Luftwaffe. She had learned to know a very great many of them by their first names at the front, had carried Paris lingerie home to their girls in England, given their Cobber Kain (the Paddy Finucane of 1940) a party at Maxim's the week before he crashed...
...suppose the Russians worked on this maxim. No more Kievs; no more Odessas; no more Sevastopols. Is this the Doctrine of Victory or are these epics reserved for Russians...