Word: maximize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mahogany bed; then, perhaps because of Napoleon's hatred of England, the idea was abandoned. Landscape gardeners lined the Avenue de l'Ópéra with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward VII, completed plans for three days of all-English menus, to the unconcealed horror of gastronomes. Maxim's even arranged to have a young British bull flown across the channel for an old-fashioned Elizabethan barbecue...
...cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite of Paris' spring collections -the mystic and sacred time when Paris' top couturiers reveal to a tiptoe world...
...favorite maxim of University administrators is that the College derives its greatest strength first from its faculty, and second from its facilities. For the undergraduate, no "facilities" are potentially more important than the Houses, and yet for many they are little more than crowded dormitories with second-rate, although inexpensive, dining rooms...
...name much better known to the average American than to the average Russian. Gromyko's diplomatic career began as a rebuke to the U.S. when Stalin, withdrawing Maxim Litvinoff in 1943 as a protest against the absence of a second front, offhandedly made Litvinoff's 34-year-old secretary the Washington ambassador...
...best group of non-collegiate fencers in Boston proved again last night what has come to be a maxim in the sport--any one fencer, or team, can have at any time either a good day or a bad one. The Salle-Elde club, led by B.U.'s coach, coasted to a 15-12 victory over the Crimson last night in a practice match at the I.A.B...