Word: maximizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game against California had taken place in 1965, and Boston was already assured of ninth place, what would Mike Andrews have done? He would have tried to knock the ball over the fence, heeding the maxim that home run hitters drive Cadillacs, and singles hitters drive Chevrolets...
There is a maxim that the amount of gambling in a club is an inverse variation to its prestige. The Bat Club is known to be the gambling club, closely challenged by the Iroquois; the D.U. Club the least exclusive (among whites, that is); the A.D. Club and Fly Club good, but containing some ugly rich folk; the Porcellian Club the most prestigious, wealthy, and socially acceptable in Boston; the Spee Club and its Fred Roloff the most interesting and broad, but also sprinkled with dullards; the Owl Club the nest of Eastern preppies and athletes; the Phoenix Club...
...exaggerating the snares you discredited the science of statistics. Even though my students affectionately call it "sadistics," Lord Kelvin's maxim still applies: "Unless yon have measured it, you don't know what you are talking about...
...surprisingly, eight of the ten losing Vietnamese presidential candidates cried "we wuz robbed!"-before the votes were totted. Such protests, said former Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge, one of the observers, reminded him of the Tammany maxim: "Claim everything, concede nothing, and if defeated, allege fraud." Added Lodge: "I don't know why we treat some of the utterances of disappointed people over there any differently from the way we treat our own politicians here. A good old irreverent attitude toward some of these charges is somewhat in order...
...Most drivers, Purdy says, only learn to start, stop and steer. Tfte mark of a good driver is his ability to handle a skid, which almost no U.S. driving school teaches. And as a near infallible rule for staying out of trouble, Purdy cites the old truck drivers' maxim...