Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directed at the brass on The Post who keep insisting on more facts, more names and more confirmations. But in the end we are led to see these men as crusty old newsmen in the Front Page tradition, driving their cub reporters hard but backing them to the hilt in a confrontation with outsiders. Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards) bears the brunt of these cliches. He puts Bernstein and Woodward under the most pressure--one of the best scenes in the movie comes when, the morning after a story linking Haldeman to the break-in has been denied by every conceivable...
THERE ARE NO Spiro Pavlovich jokes in this year's Law School musical. The omission is surprising, since every other injoke that could possibly be included in a show intended for Law School audiences is played to the hilt. If you don't know the difference between Dewey, Bushby, Ballantine, Palmer and Wood and Cravath, Swaine and Moore, or the personal characteristics of the school's better-known professors, it probably isn't worth going to Laws...
...Chopin, Poet Alfred de Mussel and Novelist Prosper Merimee. "I don't have the incredible energy she had," said Harris, 48, suggesting that "a thyroid condition" might have accounted for Sand's extraordinary vigor. "Her eyes were rather poppy. She lived to the hilt...
...University asserts against its students. The right to petition, to distribute literature, to hold outdoor meetings can all be regulated at the discretion of the Deans. Dan Steiner, gerneral counsel to the University, said last week that the University has plenty of power to enforce these to the hilt. While the campus is quiet, these rules cause little friction, but during a major political confrontation, they could easily be used to discipline students and restrict protest...
...words described her as a "tough, mean, bitchy woman, who had no women friends, who had slept her way to the top to get the interviews and jobs, who had used her father's position to wield power, who considered herself a sex symbol and played it to the hilt, and who would scratch and claw anyone anytime to get what and where she wanted." Given the prevailing attitudes about successful women, the portrayal was not surprising--Barbara Walters, after all, has been accused of similar things--and it set the terms for the public perception and discussion of Sally...