Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal hauled the top brass and the top braid off to the seclusion of Key West and Newport, ostensibly-so the reports said-to knock the big heads together. But on close inspection, the big heads emerged not even bloody, much less unbowed. Was "unification" a failure...
Toland's subtle transition shots make the jumps seem as smooth as cold cream. Sample: in the '90s, Niven's older sister (Jayne Meadows) stands in the hallway of their house holding a large brass key. He has just sworn never to touch it again (or enter the house) as long as she lives. The camera narrows its focus to the key; the key turns in a lock-in the hand of Niven's grandniece (Evelyn Keyes) half a century later...
...Thompson's brass band marched in a torchlight parade around the Yard, and then played in front of the Union...
...Uncle Row could remember the days of his slavery, and the time when his part of Texas was rich cotton land. He could remember the Yankees coming down the road "all brass buttons and bayonets," remember the uncertain years while the family that had owned him disintegrated and disappeared. Uncle Row stayed on, farming a little, a good hand with horses and stock. He hunted wildcat, bobcat, polecat, foxes, coons, possums and rabbits. Nights, he took a coal-oil lantern down to the Keechi Creek, baited up with rabbit entrails, fished all night long. Uncle Row could catch catfish, when...
Black Torrent. Like Nanking, Shanghai had calmed down slightly after widespread riots early in the week. Soothed by an emergency airlift of rice, and the promise of 8,000 tons more on the way from Hong Kong, Shanghailanders carried on much as usual. Coolies with shiny brass kitchenware hung from shoulder poles weaved through traffic banging their pans by way of advertisement. The usual crush of pedicabs surged down the street...