Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong troops had not simply evaporated. Obeying Mao's first maxim, hundreds took shelter in the elaborate maze of tunnels that the Reds have dug in many parts of Zone D. Then, in line with Mao's second rule for terrorists, the Viet Cong promptly attacked the government's defensive outposts on the periphery of Zone D. Guns blazing, battalion-sized Red units simultaneously mauled three villages, inflicting severe casualties before disappearing into the surrounding rubber plantations at dawn's light...
...Mistaken Maxim. Lesage's smashing victory made him a hot national property for the Liberals in Ottawa, particularly since the party historically alternates its leadership between French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians. Current Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, who took over from French Canadian Louis St. Laurent, is working hard to topple the five-month-old minority government of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and to force new elections. One of the reasons Pearson did not win power in last June's elections was his failure to get Lesage's full support in Quebec. Following the provincial idea...
...maximum needs a new definition. The space program could certainly use more money. But much more important, it requires a new direction of purpose. Scientific advancement is fine; so is the international prestige that comes with space achievement. But only at its peril can the U.S. forget that old maxim about the high ground...
...practice of juxtaposing a free and a strict form: the Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor and the Prelude and Fugue in B Minor. The latter fugue is a fine specimen of the many Bach fugues that are first-rate works wrought from an unpromising theme. Bach disproved the maxim, Ex nihilo nihil...
...They were the leaders of Atlanta's cultural life, and they feasted their senses at the Louvre, at St. Peter's and St. Mark's, at the Tate and the Uffizi Gallery and the Doges Palace. They had dined on the Via Veneto and in Maxim...