Word: maximize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feodor's mission is psychological tug-of-warfare with Mikhail Gorin, an old and honored writer who godfathered the revolution back in Czarist days, but refuses to toady to Stalin. Gorin, the titan of the title, is intentionally modeled on Russia's late great writer, Maxim Gorky, and in chronicling his fall Author Gouzenko stages scenes with other Russian VIPs, e.g., Stalin, Malenkov, Beria (who wears the name Veria, plus the identifying pince...
...hearings began. Seven weeks ago, Hensel related, the Senator offered to withdraw the charges against Hensel if it could be done without making McCarthy seem a "damn fool." Hensel asked why he had made the charges in the first place. According to Hensel. McCarthy "replied that he followed a maxim taught to him by an Indian named 'Charlie' with whom he had worked on a farm. Charlie, according to Senator McCarthy, urged the rule of conduct that if one was ever approached by another person in a not completely friendly fashion, one should start kicking at the other...
...speech may change an opinion, but never a vote," goes an old and cynical marim of French politics. Last week in the marble hall of the National Assembly, the maxim was dramatically shattered. The bright and comparatively young politician who did it transformed overnight, for good or ill, the French and the world political scene...
...other 'itys.' " "Those are all nouns or virtues," Butler retorts, "to which the Right Honorable Gentleman and his friends attach little importance." And a rare smile lights Rab's wintry face, as chill and fleeting as breath seen on a cold morning. It is a maxim of Butler's-and he does nothing politically which is unstudied-that charity to the enemy is profitable in the long...
...world judges a host by the way he treats his guests. If this maxim holds true for visiting athletic teams, the University's reputation has suffered at the hands of a group of apathetic undergraduates. For during the past year, the Crimson Key Society has seldom rendered the help it claims to give visiting teams...