Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliamentary delegation from France, Khrushchev disclosed that the Soviet Union was freeing 23 French prisoners and added genially: "Some way must be found to reaffirm French-Russian friendship." Next day, Chief Economic Planner Maxim Saburov crooned: "Why does France sacrifice her own interests for those of her partners? Our orders for ships, machine tools and other goods would provide good earnings for French businessmen and workers." ¶ Having won its earnestly desired diplomatic relations with West Germany by agreeing to release prisoners who should have gone home years before, Khrushchev tried the same tactics on the Japanese...
Despite beliefs that artistic freedom has not flourished under the Soviet regime, Hugh McLean in "Slavic 156" examines Russian literature since 1917 and turns up some surprising examples of great writing. The course, conducted in English, meets in New Lecture Hall 8. Maxim Gorky is very much in evidence, as is the Soviet Government...
...whistle stops and the tank towns are behind him. He earned his crack at the light-heavyweight title and won it from Joey Maxim; he knocked off Bobo Olson (TIME, July 4) and won a shot at Rocky Marciano, the heavyweight champ. At 38, after 20 years in the ring, he is ready for that real fight...
Catherine learned to preserve her own susceptible skin through "meticulous honesty and good will." Her maxim: "Behave so that the kind love you. the evil fear you, and all respect you." Of her conduct during those years, she writes: "I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman with a mind much more male than female...
...undisputed boss of the World-Herald, Omaha's only daily (circ. 254,467), Henry Doorly has long had a bedrock maxim for publishing his paper. "You can't look for popularity, if you're an independent paper," says he, "because you're constantly stepping on someone's toes. When you're alone it's doubly difficult to please everyone...