It was clever to say that in this battle the Lords were the fuzzy-wuzzies and the government had the Maxim gun.

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In the wry words of Lord Cranborne, who leads the Conservatives in the Lords, these peers are the fuzzy-wuzzies and Mr Blair has the maxim gun.

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IR You are right that Africans and Europeans were trading on equal terms before George Goldie, Major Frederick Lugard, Major Edward Hewett and other similar Europeans used the maxim gun and false treaties to deprive black African states of their independence.

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And the perfectly sensible reason why it didn't, he added, was the old Maxim-gun jingle: the Russians have got the hydrogen bomb and the Serbs have not.

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Our tradition ranges from Hiram S. Maxim, inventor of the first fully automatic machine gun, who was born in 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, to the renowned Bath Iron Works, which produces the world's most advanced surface warships.

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In 1916, Sir Hiram Maxim, American-born British inventor best known for the machine gun that bears his name, died.

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