Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two unsuccessful tries at the kill, Pat coolly wiped the blood from her hands and swaggered across the ring. Taking careful aim, she went in over the horns a third time, her feet leaving the ground as she sank the espada to the hilt. The fans poured into the ring to acclaim her triumph; the judges awarded her both the bull's ears. One judge babbled "Muchas gracias" over & over into a microphone. Pat's mother wept. Her father, a Texas oil engineer who had nerved himself to attend only at the last minute, cheered wildly. Cigarette...
...stone cave and later to a Roman bordello. The dialogue is witty, and the characters are almost perfect: a confused critic as the lover, a comic secretary, a Helen Hokinson-like committee woman, a stuffy judge, and a refugee from The Cocktail Party. They are all played to the hilt...
Reasonable Latitude. The legend that he tried to block the Normandy invasion at the Churchill-Stalin-F.D.R. meeting in Teheran he brands as completely false. He backed the plan to the hilt. Nor, says Churchill, did he,try for a Balkan invasion. What he did fight for, and did not get, was a conquest of the Aegean Islands that might bring Turkey into the war on the allied side. Because they blocked his pet plan, both F.D.R. and Eisenhower got a taste of Churchillian wrath: "There ought, I think, to be some elasticity and a reasonable latitude...
...Feminine Touch. Tillie has learned every trick of the canning trade, and played them all to the hilt. Her methods have not always endeared her to other canners. Like almost every other canner, Tillie Lewis lost money in 1948 & '49 (reason: high-cost inventories and overproduction). She squeaked through only by wangling two RFC loans for a total of $1,600,000 (has paid off all but about $600,000). Tillie chose this poor time to launch another venture-a Texas company to import and can Mexican pineapples. Tex-Mex went bust, and Tillie says she lost...
Britain, on the threshold of 1951's winter, must cope with a mounting and perilous trade deficit. Her money has lost a quarter of its purchasing power in six years. She is taxed to the hilt. Prices have inflated faster than pay packets, and food this summer was 40% more expensive than in 1947. Dissatisfaction with nationalization and with controls is rife...