Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wood might be able to return to the mound this afternoon, but it would be a tough assignment. Coach Stahl of Harvard, however, has a bit more to choose from. He could send Charley Brackett or Burgy Ayres to the hilt if Waldstein could not return...
Prices have been controlled. But paid in "occupation money"-printed in trucks as needed-German troops have twice the Belgian purchasing power, and use it to the hilt. They made great runs on silk stockings and woolen underwear. When Moën left, two out of three Belgian women were barelegged...
...younger son. Descendant of the first Duke of Marlborough, who commanded at Blenheim and Mal-plaquet, grandson of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, but also grandson of a New York City newspaperman, he sums up two Britains, both of which are in the present war up to the hilt: the Britain of military aristocracy and that of the people who, like Churchill, have difficulty pronouncing a letter-theirs is h. He could, if he wanted, wear his old school (Harrow) tie; instead he wears a cocky, defiant bow. He is a Tory, an imperialist, and has been a strikebreaker...
...little isle, and that fighters could rise to the defense from the London area and inland just as well as from the coast. If plane casualties were mounting, the R. A. F. replied that plane production was also mounting, and pilots could now fly their machines up to the hilt of action, then bail out if necessary...
...women. "When you consider that most of these fellows have never been near a bigger fire than their sitting-room grate, they are a miracle," boomed a Brigade officer. "Our men are hardbitten, experienced fighters and they trust the A. F. S. boys to the hilt...