Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harriman was eagerly accepted. Of the President's desire for peace there could be no doubt. Nor of the stakes, should the present all-out effort to get to the conference table fail. By any measure, Johnson had engaged the power and prestige of the U.S. to the hilt in one of the most intensive, difficult, carefully conducted and important global maneuvers in its diplomatic history. By the end of last week, the bombing pause and the peace offensive were in their 16th day. Were there any omens that they might just succeed, for all the odds against them...
Under the direction of Nike Awoga and Femi Okuronmu, the cast seemed to enjoy themselves as completely as the audience did and they played their comic parts to the hilt, storming and shouting around the stage with enormous enthusiasm and exuberance. Amafume Onoge as the prophet Jeroboam delighted the house with abrupt switches from pompous ranting at his flock on stage, to sly soft-voiced asides to the audience explaining his true despicable motives. In the role of Chume, Akin Adewole '66 was as athletic and skilled at fighting with his wife as he was playing line...
...sometimes eccentrically decorative, as when he fondles a favorite word (panache, chryselephantine) or interpolates an essay on ancient music or a sermon on international law. However entertaining, the devices are finally irrelevant and intrusive. Their cumulative effect is as pointless as a sword swallower who decides to eat the hilt first because the paste jewels seem so bright and chewy...
...years to live, and will undoubtedly step up their spending when the Medicare bill-which will probably be passed early this year-gives them a new measure of security. Young marrieds, too, believe that pensions and medical insurance will take care of the future, are living to the hilt now. At the same time, so many moonlighting students have taken part-time jobs that the average U.S. teen-ager earns $400 a year, and spends practically every penny...
...second act Him shows Me a play on which he has been working, a string of nine devilish burlesques which the Theatre Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least...