Word: maximize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career (and for U.S. diplomacy), Henderson was prematurely antiCommunist. As a specialist in Washington in World War II, he continued to call the Red turns accurately. He was one of the first to spot the Katyn Massacre as a Russian, not a German, crime. When Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov complained of his "unfriendliness," the State Department in 1943 shunted him off as Ambassador to Iraq...
Occasionally the lissome ladies who make their living modeling the latest French fashions manage to borrow a dress from their employers for an evening of lend-lease delight at Maxim's. But for the most part, the Paris mannequin's career is one of exhausting routine, small compensation and worry over the future...
...countrymen were disappointed that the man whose favorite political maxim is "we must choose" had failed to proclaim his choice; that the man of bold actions had acted the part of a man of devious devices. France's allies were distressed by his accusations that they had ganged up on him, charges that fanned French chauvinism and rekindled old hates. For Mendès, the way back would be harder now; doubts were now planted...
...convent in Nantes, Aimée was given as a present to Turkish Sultan Abd ül Hamid I, who popped her into his harem. At first, convent-bred Aimée violently resisted a fate worse than death, but at last came to agree with the Arab maxim: "Woman succeeds where man fails, for woman knows when to yield." Aimée became the Sultan's favorite, and lived to a ripe age plotting bloodthirstily against the Sultan's enemies. Thanks to Aimée, her son, Mahmoud II ("The Reformer"), broke the power of the Janissaries...
...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. A powerful fiction account of the death of Maxim Gorki, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, June...