Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East German regime. Still, Nasser was moving carefully. He withheld full recognition from East Germany, and in a remarkable aside to Ulbricht, he said: "I needn't explain to you the deplorable and painful circumstances surrounding our relations with the Bonn government. We are still doing our utmost to avoid further worsening in the current state of affairs." He also went out of his way to underline Egypt's "radical differences with Communist ideology. We believe in religion and refuse dictatorship by any class...
Whether the newspaper outcries will be followed up by bolder moves toward decentralized planning remains to be seen. Less easily remedied, though, would be another complaint aired in Komsomolskaya Pravda. Writing from Leningrad, an engineer identified as L. Svetlanov heretically demanded the utmost in decentralization: individual freedom and "live spontaneity" in daily life. Deploring the "rehearsed informality" of Soviet society, Svetlanov described a typical "poetry night" in a Moscow cafe. "After the poets are through reciting," he wrote, "they sit at a separate table and talk animatedly among themselves. A couple of autograph hunters approach timidly. The jazz band plays...
...that ever since 1824 the courts have consistently upheld a rule by Chief Justice John Marshall in a famous case (Gibbons v. Ogden, involving steamboat traffic between New York and New Jersey) that the commerce clause gives Congress a power "complete in itself" that may "be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the Constitution." The only real test of that power, wrote Clark, is "whether the activity sought to be regulated is commerce which concerns more than one state and has a real and substantial relation to the national interest...
...also had Hurricane Isbell on our hands. All you can do when it comes at you from all sides is throw it at the reader. As for Khrushchev-we just put all the rumors together to see if they spelled mother." The News approached the spelling job with utmost care. Its first headline...
...blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren...