Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move U.S. foreign policy ahead in the cold-war battle against Communism. Over four years, Dulles' instincts in this big battle have been unerring. He resisted arguments from both friends and enemies that the U.S. should coexist happily with Stalin's Russia. He backed to the hilt the stout cold warriors of Europe, e.g., Germany's Konrad Adenauer. He threw international Communism into a flap by releasing the text of Khrushchev's historic oration to the 20th Party Congress denouncing Stalin and his works-a text never published by Moscow. Through the successful extension...
...Feikens' job is to defeat a Democratic ticket next month that is: 1) headed by Michigan's popular four-term Governor G. Mennen Williams, millionaire heir to a soap fortune; 2) seconded by Lieut. Governor Phil Hart, who married an automobile fortune; and 3) backed to the hilt by Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers of America, whose 700,000 Michigan members are regularly assessed for some $2,600,000 for educational work that has never been known to hurt the Democratic cause in populous Wayne County (Detroit). "Look what we're up against," says Feikens...
...pulled a double coup, gave U.S. listeners their first chance to hear famed Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff and beauteous Turkish Soprano Leyla Gencer. Gencer, loved at first sight, was the modest and moving star of Zandonai's rarely heard Francesco, da Rimini; Christoff, playing his temperament to the hilt, was almost the ruination of Boris Godunov...
...lavish sponsor commitments, the TV chains lost money. CBS alone estimated a loss of some $500,000. (Ike's day-early arrival cost them $100,000 by pre-empting The $64,000 Question.) As a show, it was stiff, padded and costly, but TV served tradition to the hilt...
Moderate Findings. Prison officials flatly denied any willful mistreatment or brutality. Said huge, knife-scarred Deputy Warden Doyle Smith, object of many of the charges: "I've never whipped a prisoner, but you have to be boss." He was backed to the hilt by wispy, sick-looking Hubert Smith (no relation), chief warden at Rock Quarry since 1951. Declared the warden: "This leg-breaking was planned by these men to get public sympathy to bring pressure on the state to abolish this camp...