Word: hilted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done to bring peace . . . every attempt must be made to seize upon the slightest evidence of good feeling between nations...
...feet for a robust Star-Spangled Banner and a dignified God Save the King. Then, for two hours, the music lovers watched Sir Thomas, one of the most graphic conductors of them all, play his perfectly disciplined orchestra like an organ. They heard great music played to the hilt with an unmistakably British accent...
Some School-of-Paris giants were represented by studies which proved to the hilt their ability to echo the classical tradition that Ingres most admired. But gallery-goers paused longest before their less readable works, drawings which bore the stamp of each artist's rebellious, individualistic style...
...important visitors to both schools pushes the two principals into a crack-brained collaboration. Anxious to hide the ministry's error, they synchronize their watches and plot a schedule for two guided tours, each designed to exhibit one school at a time. This antic scheme, played to the hilt, leads to chaos, rioting and some hilarious glimpses of English public-school traditions and traditionalists under stress...
That spurred Rosenfeld to put his designer, Elizabeth Hilt, to work on fall and winter suits. He earmarked $1,000,000 (Henry's favorite figure) for purchase of Botany flannels, iridescent tweeds, etc., and signed up six factories which turned out WAC and WAVE uniforms during the war to make his suits. Next month he expects to show buyers 30 new models of fall suits to retail for $39.95. By the end of next year, he thinks his gross will rise to $40 million as he turns out 1,000,000 suits bearing his rosebud label...