Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kitten and as lethal as a lion. He stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and carries a massive bulk of nearly 300 lbs., and within that girth courses the unharnessed ego of a small child, a craze for attention and reverence. Last week Idi Amin was playing to the hilt the role he loves best: he was standing full-glare in the spotlight, forcing a major power into a state of consternation. He had done it before and in all probability would do it again...
Whacker was playing the role of mad scientist to the hilt, emitting gales of frightening, nervous laughter. "My p-3 facility is this way," he said, indicating a chicken-wire and cardboard contraption in yet another corner of our dank cell...
What would a fairy tale be without a wicked stepmother to impede the lovers? Barbara Lane plays the role up to the hammy hilt. The dances shiver the floorboards. Gerald Freedman directs at a cannonball pace without sacrificing the illusion that the show is taking place in an enchanted glade...
...School Council (the student governing body), the Black Law Students Association and the Women's Law Association all backed Bowman to the hilt. The battle between the students who wanted the Law School to chastise the firm, and the administration, which seemed to want to hush the whole thing up, intensified. Throughout the struggle, students kept suggesting that the real reason the dean refused to take action was the Law School's financial cowardice. Morrison's firm, like many prestigious corporate law firms, apparently makes a large annual gift to the Law School, and students felt that the Law School...
...time advocated a new deal for his country's African population and has helped to desegregate some of the country's best hotels and restaurants. He is far better known, however, for his kragdadigheid (iron-fistedness). He has defended the actions of his police to the hilt, declaring them to be "in the forefront of the fight to combat Communism [which is] infiltrating the country." Asked why the police did not use rubber bullets during the June rioting in Soweto in which 176 were killed, Kruger replied: "Rubber bullets give the impression the police have rubber guns. They...