Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Fri. noon, CBS-TV) has followed the familiar progression: novel to movie to radio or TV show. Betty MacDonald's saga of a city couple on a chicken farm is inspirational in tone, concerned with small problems, and played to the hilt by the cast, notably by a breathless actress named Pat Kirkland...
...also been talking to Harold Stassen. Stassen, too, was alarmed by the possibility of Taft as a candidate. About the middle of June, Stassen had a private talk with Tom Dewey. He told Dewey that he was going to back Ike to the hilt. Milton Eisenhower, president of Penn State and, in the professionals' view, an authoritative spokesman for brother Ike, had said that the general would not allow the use of his name in primaries as long as he was in uniform. To get around this ban, Stassen proposed that he enter his own name in crucial primaries...
...from the Prophet himself, was making his weekly visit to the shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones lie buried there. Abdullah, right hand relaxed on the hilt of his ceremonial dagger, * walked easily, far ahead of his bodyguard. Talking animatedly with his companions, including his grandson, 15-year-old Emir Hussein, the King went up the steps to the entrance of the nearby Aqsa Mosque, slipped off his shoes, prepared to join 4,000 other Moslems...
Essentially, spare, studious Al Wedemeyer "was a MacArthur man. "We [are losing] a hell of a lot of boys," said he, "and we are filling a bottomless pit." He saw only two alternatives in the war in Korea: 1) fight it to the hilt, or 2) get out altogether. If the U.S. pulled out (he wasn't too clear about what would happen to the South Koreans), he would plunge into full mobilization at home, break diplomatic relations with all Communist countries, and confront Russia with an ultimatum. "I think the time is coming," he said, "when we will...
...ambitious, unsponsored, overcomplicated quiz show employing six experts (at least three too many) and an amiable moderator named Mike Wallace. Most of the opening show was devoted to explaining the game and rechecking the competitors' scores, and to a series of interminable charades acted to the hilt by Comic Joey Faye...