Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's study. Cost: $350 million the first year. Total monthly pay of a major general has risen only 11% ($805 to $895) since 1908 while a private's base pay has been boosted almost 350% (from $18 to $80). But since the new bill favors the brass, a group of ex-G.I.s in the House raised such a fuss that it was sent back to committee...
...artists are deeply concerned with moral issues: their concern should not concern us expect insofar as it contributes to the aesthetic value. "Forever Amber" and "Shore Leave" can and should be condemned only from this aesthetic standpoint, any other criticisms must be recognized as moral ones. Morality is the brass knuckles of artistic criticism...
...Fear but Firmness. Christian Democrat de Gasperi understood the Red game. He also understood that democracy's first job had been to curb communism as a brass-knuckled force beyond the law. Despite Red violence in the farmhands' strike, he had established his government's authority...
Equally sincerely, two days later, the government announced the results, which surprised nobody: 96.5% of the voters had cast their ballot for the Communist regime. The People's Front bowed to the duly expressed will of the majority. The Reds folded their goulash tents and sent their brass bands home. The mulatsdg was over...
...Products Corp., Baltimore Trust), Businessman Bruce did as he was told. He got on joke-swapping terms with Juan Perón, hobnobbed with the cardinal primate and governors. Bruce became so close a friend of some nationalist generals that it got to be embarrassing. A group of army brass once invited him to a meeting. Just in time, Bruce learned that they were plotting the government's overthrow and wanted his advice. "This is one meeting, gentlemen," he told them, "which I cannot attend...