Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twofold. It must preserve a strong and healthy home economy and do all it can to support and reconstruct the economic and industrial systems of other nations who fared less well than this country in the course of the war, and it must support the United Nations to the hilt. The U.N. has not lived up to the high expectations with which it was founded; sometimes it resembles nothing more than a glorified debating society; its prestige is small and its power smaller. But is remains the noblest of all experiments, the one hope for a peaceful future...
Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Opus 45, has extraordinary strength and spaciousness of sonority to widen this composer's usual sphere of unfiled phantasmagoria. It taxes the strings, quite successfully, to the hilt, with truncated, screeching tremolos, portamentos, and sounds produced with the back of the bow. But the more familiar this listener becomes with Schoenberg's devices, the less is he able to be content with the sheer magnificent discoveries of sounds, and the more is he confirmed in his preconception that a work of art demands by nature a connecting tissue alien to Schoenberg's methods...
...Birds & the Flowers. The Honorable Members drifted in behind the procession to hear the solemn reading of the budget by big (6 ft. 3 in.) Hugh Dalton. Hearty Hugh Dalton had played to the hilt a role in another solemn custom of Budget Week. By British tradition a Chancellor of the Exchequer about to produce a budget is treated like a pregnant woman. He relaxes in the peaceful countryside, awaiting the great moment. The press lavishes solicitude, photographs him smiling bravely through his ordeal. Editorialists who have lambasted him unmercifully for months before the Great Event (and will flay...
...lastly, are succeeding generations of students with limited means doomed to that kind of capsule education that leaves little room for development of individual talents and even less room for the general, ethical background so essential in a free society? This small bit of education, decentralized to the hilt, might prove a very dangerous thing indeed to the masses of young men and women who would be buoyed up to a glimpse of college and then abandoned, thoroughly frustrated with their inability to continue this training...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, eagle-faced eldest of Ibn Saud's 40-odd sons, got an eagle's-eye view of Manhattan. In the city on a coast-to-coast tour, the Prince played the tourist to the hilt-hustled straight from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the Empire State Building for an educational gape. Manhattan gaped, too: with the Prince was a retinue of protectors hung with cartridge belts, golden swords, and jeweled daggers...