Word: utmost
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President went on to his major pronouncement: "The immediate goal of our foreign policy is to support the United Nations to the utmost." There was a feeble cheer, a few seconds of applause for this implicit answer to Winston Churchill's call for an Anglo-American fraternity of interests against Russia. The U.S. pledges its power behind the United Nations' "right to insist that the sovereignty and integrity of the Near and Middle East must not be threatened by coercion or penetration." No response from the crowd...
Said R.I.A.: American Communists, whose "one principle is Russia first," will do their utmost to foment "class warfare," force the leaders of non-Communist labor organizations into extreme positions, embarrass management and the Administration. "With our stiffening foreign policy toward Russia the hostility will increase. . . . The key to understanding Communist labor activity lies in the basic Party philosophy . . . that the end justifies the means...
What if a few hundred thousand men huddled together in a small corner of the world had done their utmost to disfigure it . . . so that no green thing, not even a blade of grass could grow; had . . . trimmed all the trees and driven away every animal and every bird-in spite of all, spring was still spring in every town. . . . The birches, the wild cherry trees and the poplars unfolded their gummy and fragrant leaves, the bursting buds of the lindens expanded, the jackdaws, the sparrows and the pigeons were busy and joyous over their nests. . . . Plants, birds, insects...
...Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
When the critics called Hogarth's engravings "crude," he replied, with 18th-Century involution, that the passions may be more forcibly expressed by a strong, bold stroke than by the most delicate engraving. To expressing them as I felt them, I have paid the utmost attention and, as they were addressed to hard hearts, have rather preferred leaving them hard, and giving the effect, by a quick touch, to rendering them languid and feeble by fine strokes and soft engraving, which require more care and practice than can often be attained, except by a man of a very quiet...