Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply, able Mr. McCloy (see p. 20) backed DeWitt to the hilt. Wrote he: "I know of no Army officer in whom I would place greater confidence. He has thought of more dangers that might threaten the West Coast than even you with your alert mind have thus far conceived...
Invisible weapons might include: a six-inch lady's hatpin, or a wrist knife strapped to the wrist with the hilt downwards; a knife hung around the neck; a small revolver held up the sleeve by rubber bands; a stiletto with a nine-inch blade. Other useful weapons : a hammer, cheese-cutters (wires with wooden handles, handy for garroting) ; a handkerchief with a fistful of sand in it. Besides blankets, extra socks, binoculars, rifles, burnt cork to blacken the face, etc., an important part of the equipment is 25 to 30 yards of fishline. This has many uses...
...United States Baptist editorial urged both Northern and Southern Baptists "to set up well-organized and amply financed radio departments." This is also the solution suggested by the Chicago survey, which thinks the national churches themselves should produce and sponsor network broadcasts that would utilize to the hilt the techniques of such successful programs as Town Meeting of the Air, the Music Appreciation Hour, and Cavalcade of America, develop also some new techniques of their...
...tunes played in modern arrangements as a way of livening up a movie ought to be Hollywood's Number One Hero by this time. From the barbershop quartet favorites of the nineties to the ballads that Grandmother used to waltz to--all these have been worked to the hilt; and they've met with consistent success. It was inevitable that somebody should get the notion of using some of the top-notch blues songs of the past as the thread on which to hang another movie. And that's exactly what's been done in Paramount's "The Birth...
Hands clasped over sword hilt, Admiral Gouton sat in the High Commissioner's office and ne bougeait pas. Unless the Allied commanders called on him first, he would not budge. General Georges Catroux, who commanded the Free French in the Syrian campaign, equally refused to make the first gesture. At last General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the Allied Commander in Chief, went in and got the Admiral to come out. When he left the building, trumpets flourished...