Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, Ambassador James C. Dunn tried to make the best case he could for U.S. democracy. He pointed to U.S. generosity with money and supplies. But Washington gave no public sign that it would back the De Gasperi government up to the hilt against any attempted Communist coup. And yet a victory for Communism in Italy would mean that the cold war, which the U.S. once thought it was winning, would get uncomfortably warm...
Scouts from six Manhattan nightspots had ringside tables. So did Irving Berlin, with a Broadway musical in mind. They were watching what Comedienne Thompson describes as "the greatest group that ever hit humanity." Says she: "We're five very virile people. Everything we do is to the hilt. If it's a chord, it's the most beautiful chord. If it's a dance, it's the most exciting dance. It's dizzy-making-loaded with personality. It's rhythm, energy, humor, vitality, and sex all wangled into one." Also wangled: shades...
...committee offers "has never been greater than at this moment." Presidential recognition of the gravity of the situation is surely a hopeful sign. But even non-residents of Mr. Truman's home state will "want to be shown" Congressional and State civil liberties legislation, enforced to the hilt, before they start to cheer...
...Exodus people must have a happy ending, for our own benefit in Germany, let alone theirs. A United Nations solution, America-backed to the hilt (with plenty of salutary notice in German newspapers), could rescue the American occupation from its present grotesque position in Germany, where so much else is at stake...
...meritorious service" citation from the General Federation of Women's Clubs, convening in Manhattan. When outgoing President Mrs. La Fell Dickinson fluffed her lines during the presentation, Actor Stewart, who looks as comforting as every mother's son should look, played his familiar role to the hilt...