Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisenhower was the choice of both President Roosevelt and of General Marshall (of whom he writes with near veneration), and Marshall gave him the power, then backed him to the hilt. Says Eisenhower flatly: "Commanders in the American Army were all of my own choosing." He also fired them on his own responsibility, including General Lloyd R. Fredendall in Africa, and an unnamed corps commander in Italy...
...Herman will play his underdog role to the hilt, clothe his team in the Frank Merriwell tradition. Herman Hickman won't say a word about just how tough good healthy Yales are, because he's smart enough to hang on to his underdog spot...
Harvard's coaching staff will play this underdog angle to the hilt. No creampuff opener has been selected. When the Crimson goes against Columbia Saturday, Valpey's Michigan single-wing magic will be unveiled for the first time...
Harvard's coaching staff will play this underdog angle to the hilt. No creampuff opener has been selected. When the Crimson goes against Columbia a week from Saturday, Valpey's Michigan single-wing magic will be unveiled for the first time...
Wallace, if he was to be believed-and his loyal followers believed him to the hilt-was not aware that this capture had taken place. The U.S. people, most of whom would vote as Republicans or Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...