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Word: hilt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of the month signified the end for most students, who enjoyed the rest of December to the hilt--knowing what was in store for them in January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stability and Change | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...worn by Omani males. On his desk, along with several folders marked "top secret," is a copy of Jane's Fighting Ships. His headdress is purple silk; his robe is white and partially covered by a black cloak trimmed with gold. At his waist is a khanjar, the hilt marked with a design to be used only by the ruler. The following are excerpts from an exclusive interview for TIME in which the Sultan describes the situation in the gulf as "alarming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Sultan Speaks His Mind | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...part knight who helps Silvia escape in Act V. He leaps on stage wearing silver boots, a white cape, silver leggings and a white tunic with a heraldic device on the front. Shazzam! It's Disco Superman! The house howled at every word. Berti played it to the hilt, flourishing his cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism. Lacey apparently decided to cast continuity aside...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Bad Bard in Boston | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...told what to do 'if.' They wanted to be told 'if' wasn't going to happen, and they wanted us to concentrate on making sure it didn't happen." Or as another official puts it, "The support-the-Shah-to-the-hilt policy limited discussion of other options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Self-Paralyzing Policy | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...troupe of embalmed corpses could fail to entertain, and the Winthrop players rise to the challenge with unabashed enthusiasm. Mike Herrmann as the out-of-work actor Diabetes, and George Melrod as Hepatitis both look uncannily like Groucho Marx and play their urban-Jewish-intellectual-neurotic characters to the hilt. Meanwhile, the supporting cast, led by the gum-cracking, orgasm-seeking Phil major from Brooklyn College and Great Neck, Doris Levine (played nicely by Jaleh Poorooshasb), camps and hams through Allen's inspired lunacy. Every new character who walks onstage builds the madness to a higher pitch until the whole...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: God and Ham at Winthrop | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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