Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon Maxim...
...That old maxim-masher, Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, tangled with the National Guard last week. He was telling the House Armed Services Committee about the Administration's directive requiring future National Guard recruits to undergo six months of full-time military training-a plan that the politically influential Guard opposes as a hindrance to enlistments. "You know," he volunteered, "the thing was really sort of a scandal during the Korean war. It was a draft-dodging business. A boy of 17 to 18½ could enlist in the National Guard and not be drafted and sent to Korea...
...volley. The first guest was a Utah farmer who reminded Dempsey that they had sparred as boys. Dempsey stared in blank dismay as the man climbed into the ring, then went into a friendly clinch and clung as if for the bell. Next he was asked to recall the maxim his religious mother taught him. "Go to church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin'. Only once, with obvious inadvertence, did he throw a verbal counterpunch. "Now they...
...Bounds. The trouble, huffed the Committee, was the failure of Soviet planners to stay within the bounds of "the real possibilities of securing enough material and financial resources for fulfillment of the plans." Out of the chief planning job went chill-eyed First Deputy Premier Maxim Saburov, apparently only shunted aside, unlike his predecessor Voznesensky, who was executed in 1949. The new planner is scholarly looking First Deputy Premier Mikhail Pervukhin, 52, who has risen high as an industrial manager (the approved biographies, which always make top Reds humble sons of the proletariat, list him as a blacksmith...
Russell Thomas' poem resembles variations rising from the title maxim, First Things Last. The poem does not get to you by images so much as in waves, amplifying the starting statement that "Seeing is better than believing." Once you have seen you can only go to distort the sight...