Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of the Interior. In his office by around 7:30 each morning, Udall puts in a twelve-hour day, manages to ruffle a good many feelings throughout Washington in the process. Less than a month after taking office, Udall frankly stated that he would play politics "to the hilt." He annoyed Capitol Hill by stating publicly that he had twisted congressional arms to help President Kennedy's showdown fight to expand the House Rules Committee. Next, Udall stirred up a minor fuss by bluntly advising the Washington Redskins pro football team to sign on some Negro players...
...traffic and parking regulations will be enforced "up to the hilt" beginning immediately, Sgt. John M. McCarthy, Safety Officer of the Cambridge Police Department, announced last night...
...would lead them into a war for which they were not ready-only to realize eventually that the "warlord's" successful bluff made their caution seem ridiculous. The big-lie technique, the phony "threats" to Germany from future victims (Austria, Czechoslovakia. Poland) are documented to the hilt. And Shirer argues that until the Russians made their pact with Hitler, the West could have stopped him cold at every point...
Vanderford's main claim to fame is a white beard that combines with a baseball cap and sports shirt to give him a resemblance to that bullock-befriending bard, Ernest "Papa" Hemingway. Vanderford plays his part to the hilt, occasionally signs Hemingway's name for autograph seekers (growls Papa: "I don't care if he signs my name as long as he doesn't sign checks"), and passes out cards bearing his picture, true name and coy inscriptions, reading in Spanish, "Although two drops of water look alike, they are different," and in English, "Everyone...
Want to think? See "Caligula." Stunningly set and magnificently costumed, it is acted to the hilt by Kenneth Haigh and a vast army of Romans...