Word: filliperative
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...main Communist north-south communication line; 2) added 80 square miles to French Union control, including 30,000 acres of rice land; 3) plugged a hole through which rice had been leaking out of the delta into Viet Minh country. More important than the strategic gain was the fillip to Vietnamese morale and French pride in showing what they could do with the right weapons. There were still vast areas to be retaken from the well-organized Communist guerrillas, but De Lattre could exult: "From now on, the initiative is mine...
Thomas K. Scherman is a man who has given Manhattan's already rich musical menu an added fillip of flavor. Since 1947, his Little Orchestra Society (38 players) has been delving into the "terrific repertoire" of little-orchestra music, new & old, that rarely gets played by the big orchestras in Carnegie Hall...
...Swan Soap and Blackstone Cigars. Goals for regular, continued growth in membership should be set; the neighborhood should be carefully surveyed by questionnaire and canvasser to determine age and income groups, interests, reasons for coming to church and for staying away. Then ingenuity should be applied to give a fillip to the old, familiar routines...
...fillip to the news from Sir Miles, I.A.T.A.'s Director General Sir William Hildred reported on the fast growth of world aviation. In 1949 scheduled airlines...
...state, make up the bulk of an exciting movie.They involve varied backgrounds (a music hall, a cable car, a river barge) and some sharply written, ably played characters, notably a blonde, half-English entertainer (Glynis Johns) and a scoundrelly smuggler (Herbert Lorn) whose wholehearted cynicism puts a fillip of fun into his every scene. Actor Fairbanks does just as well as the smallest of Gilliat's bit-players, i.e., very well indeed...