Word: hilt
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...everything changed. Or rather, Vag's outlook on them changed. Like lovers about to separate, all the Little Things became important. They suddenly were big Little Things--things which would never occur again in just the same way. They had to be studied, noticed, appreciated to the hilt with a new solemnity. The very atmosphere of this Harvard was to be sipped in, sounds and sights were to be inhaled--treasured...
...went on to say that it would sell or exchange 24 operating companies farther west, if SEC insisted, but would retain its Philippine properties as beyond the scope of the law. Ably playing to the hilt the new role of reformed penitent, the company announced: "While the changes . . . are of a sweeping character, obedience to the law, and a loyal respect for public opinion, demand that the task be performed in the best of faith...
Fire and Sword. Herren Hitler, Goebbels, Ley et al. are the remorseless leaders and directors of the Nazi program to liquidate the Jews. But the merciless hand of 185,000 who eagerly carry out their orders to the hilt and then some are the 185,000 bullyboys of the Reich?the Schutzstaffel, the vicious elite of the Nazi storm troops. Their organ, and that of the Gestapo (secret police) is Das Schwarze Korps. This Party paper recently stated it as a fact that international Jewry had declared war on Germany...
...event of an attack being made on the United States coast on the Atlantic side the fleet could be brought to the Atlantic Ocean in sufficient time to prevent any real success on the part of an enemy. . . ." Admiral Leahy backed the President's program to the hilt, and incidentally added a new reason of his own for a Big Navy-"Possible exploitation or seizure of the Republics of Central and South America." But he knew as well as the President that a Big Navy means a Big Navy in the Pacific and nowhere else...
...Meissonier's Napoleonic battle-scenes. Aside from being a little dull, the picture has only one major fault. Apparently Producer Bernard Hyman overlooked the fact that if one of the characters in any dramatic piece is Napoleon Bonaparte, and if this character is played up to the hilt by a competent actor, everyone else in the cast is subsidiary...