Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While playing up the story of the arrested Americans to the hilt, Israeli officials are now throttling back on the larger charges of a U.S. command base for Hamas. "I'm not trying to tell you this is a fixed organization with headquarters in the States," said Uri Dromi, head of the government press office. "But this is proof of the first seeds of some attempt to centralize the organization and run it from one place." Said a senior Israeli security official: "I don't think Hamas is run only from the U.S., but the U.S. is part...
Diana relishes being her own woman, playing the role to the hilt. She has become an ardent patron of many causes, especially involving AIDS patients, the infirm and deprived children. "I doubt if anyone in the British Isles is better at going into a ward filled with people with cancer or AIDS," says biographer Philip Ziegler. Those close to her say the princess is very savvy and streetwise and, when not in the grip of frustration or rage, well able to size up her position. "She recognizes what people want from her," says someone who has worked with...
...think it was the informality of the whole thing," he says. "It was like their home. You didn't have to be dressed to the hilt...
...featured in the 1964 movie Topkapi. Created in the 1740s as a gift for the Shah of Persia, who was assassinated before he could take possession, it is a sword-length blade that is more a showpiece than a weapon. Who would want to bloody a knife with a hilt containing three walnut-size emeralds and a diamond-covered sheath...
...Faith No More's targets are the rich and powerful. In the darkly humorous RV, Patton plays to the hilt a fortysomething couch potato who has made a career of failure. He narrates the sorry soliloquy in a gravelly, hangover-from-hell drone to a bluesy piano and guitar accompaniment. "Besides listening to my belly gurgle/ Ain't much else to do," he groans, then concludes by mumbling, "I think it's time I had a talk with my kids/ I'll just tell 'em what my daddy told me/ You ain't ever gonna amount to nothin...