Word: hilt
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...Which leaves Bush to do exactly what he did today - claim to have learned about the whole thing in the papers, just like everybody else (he has been pretty busy this fall), back his Justice Department to the hilt, and promise to see what he can do to keep this sort of disaster from happening again...
...older. He is most persuasive playing powerful men - like Brutus, become sere and weary trying to rationalize ambition as idealism - or ancient ones. His centuries-old Count Dracula has the sepulchral poignancy of a majestic senior citizen doomed to play the vampire yet determined to play it to the hilt. And Welles sounds hokiest, and farthest from his own prodigious, wandering youth, when imitating the thin, whiny timbre of small-town America's young men in such period pieces as "I'm a Fool," "Seventeen," "Ah, Wilderness!" and "The Magnificent Ambersons." To hear him grow, and grow...
...slavery a crime against humanity, President Clinton found it politically untenable to apologize for it. And the very idea of compensation sends the U.S. political establishment into apoplexy. European states that would be implicated alongside the U.S. on slavery and by themselves on colonialism are backing Washington to the hilt. The best the descendants of those wronged can hope for, say U.S. diplomats, is a collective statement of regret...
...second blow came last fall, when parents started decamping to other schools. Paramount discovered it had overestimated its head count, and state funding was reduced by $400,000. With its credit cards maxed to the hilt, the school made cutbacks. The school is suffering from growing pains and will be on its feet this fall, according to Leo Condos, a Mesa attorney who represents Paramount and specializes in charter-school law. Says Condos: "Most of the people in the charter business have an educational dream, and they just don't always pursue it with the best business knowledge...
...friends and lavishes penniless Athenian artists with his patronage. He has no ulterior motive: he is simply a kind and generous soul who lives, unconsciously, far beyond his considerable means. His life becomes full of complication once the steward Flavius reveals that Timon's estate is mortgaged to the hilt. As the news leaks out, creditors begin to hound the generous merchant. Timon is forced to appeal to his friends, who, predictably, refuse...