Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McMaster: That's a good maxim for all walks of life, a good way of running the world: freedom of individual interpretation accompanied by universal cooperation . . . This is progress: learning by past experiences and applying the knowledge toward a fuller life ... a greater tolerance for others who may arrive at their conceptions of God and truth in regions different from our own. The past is like a rear-view mirror of a car. If you drive carefully, observing safety rules, you must refer to it . . To insure [progress, we must insure] the freedom to explore, create, originate and improvise...
...Leavings. By mid-August, the only Frenchmen left in Paris are those frankly catering to the tourists. Hotspots on the Place Pigalle perform with sweaty, nude energy. The Casino de Paris turns away customers every evening, and at Maxim's the maitre d'hôtel, substituting for Albert (who has gone to Deauville), is hard put to find a latecomer a seat ("And will monsieur have champagne...
...their head was round-polled Nikita Khrushchev, 61, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. With him was an imposing array of politburocrats: goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin, smiling professorially; First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian who masterminds Soviet trade policy; Old Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich and Young Bolshevik Maxim Saburov; Georgy Malenkov, once Premier, now electrical-power boss; cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko, looking for once as if he had not an enemy in sight...
...18th attempt, he made the grade, spent the rest of the war at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort Meade, and was discharged as a private. Returning to his native Chicago, he joined the Legion and plunged into its politics. In moments of Legion political crisis, Ringley's favorite maxim is: "When you're hurt, you smile and sharpen your knife...
...sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time to fostering support for a political union of democratic nations. His favorite judicial maxim, drawn from Justice Holmes: "If a law makes you want to puke, then due process has been denied...