Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While conservative business organizations and individuals plead for a liberalized trade policy and a devoted nation stands ready to back him to the hilt, Mr. Eisenhower bows to the noisy and parasitical high-tariff lobby. The commission which he would have Congress appoint for a year's review of tariff policy could arrive at basic and practicable conclusions after a conference with any schoolboy who has studied elementary economics. Europe is crying for prompt removal of American tariff barriers so that, by earning dollars, she might ease out of the American-aid strait jacket...
Ways and Means is a fairly long-winded farce about a couple of carefree, down-at-heel professional guests and an imperturbable burglar on the Côote d'Azur. Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson and Jack Warner, in a trio of spry performances, play it to the hilt...
...Nicholls' plan is for a federal South Africa, split int01) a Boer Republic in Transvaal, Orange Free State and part of Cape Province, 2) a British dominion in Natal and the rest of the Cape. Fire-eating veterans of the anti-Malan Torch Commando back Nicholls to the hilt, but the leaders of the Opposition United Party call his scheme "preposterous," and declare that a British attempt at secession might risk a second Boer...
Last week, obviously enjoying himself to the hilt, Storm was stacked up against 2,561 yapping, yelping dogs at the dog world's No. 1 blue-ribbon event, the Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden. As the defending champion, Storm received the mixture of stares and deference which is the lot of all titleholders. Most of the time Storm stayed in an uncomfortable stall in the Garden basement, loftily ignoring the people who came to look at him. In the ring, he coolly defeated all members of his own breed, then beat a batch of other dogs...
...sway (up from 190 million only a few years ago), the Soviet Union now hopes that "the free world-crowded back on its own defenses-may be led to fall into factions and prey upon itself." The Communists could be counted on to exploit this possibility to the hilt-by wooing and threatening America's allies away from their allegiance. In the U.S., the Reds will appeal to "every smoldering prejudice," warning "with sly insinuation against British imperialism and German neo-Naziism, against the resurgence of Japanese trading combines or France's slowness in rearming." This...