Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outward appearances, Armed Services Chairman Carl Vinson was still playing to the hilt his role as stalwart defender of the separate services against President Eisenhower's move toward centralizing Pentagon power. But in the week's most remarkable Capitol Hill development, what Twining was actually working on-with Vinson's full approval -was a compromise preserving the essentials of the Eisenhower plan...
Brand's story, documented to the hilt of an SS dagger, should be required reading for those who cling to the notion that the human race is essentially a friendly society. One of the incidental ironies of the book is that when a government is totally corrupt and evil, as was that of the Nazi regime in Europe, financial venality is a mitigating virtue...
...executive committee of the Communist International. Back in Brazil in 1935, Prestes sparked another insurrection; his men rose in the night and slit the throats of sleeping loyalist soldiers. He failed again and went to prison for nine years. Released, and playing the martyr's role to the hilt, he was elected Senator, but his loyalties remained wholly Red. "If Brazil should fight Russia," he said, "I would form guerrillas and together with my followers I would fight for Russia...
...since the opera singer is acted to the richly encrusted hilt by Eileen Herlie, a script that often plods as it perplexes, and that perplexes less and less as it proceeds, just manages to squeak through. With a stylish, long-discontinued look, Actress Herlie can rivet attention; with a bass-fiddle-deep laugh, she suddenly arouses laughter. The Guthrie treatment fares best when there is nothing much to treat: the air of secrecy proves more rewarding than the secret, the theatrical Herlie-burly than the philosophical coda. When the play finally turns serious, it seems, more than anything else, like...
...sensitive English schoolboy goes astray on the devious paths of life and love, comes to believe that the game is not worth the candle, but is brought back to himself through the influence of Horab Greenbloom, one of the flashiest intellectual priests of the life-to-the-hilt school in recent fiction history...