Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buttoned-up pride & prejudice of the various armed services. To date, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been unable to produce an integrated strategy for World War III beyond an agreement "in principle." All hands agree on the primary role of air power. But Air Force and Navy brass continued to fight over their separate notions of how the available aircraft should be divvied up, who should use what kind of planes...
...Hall of the Realm in Stockholm's royal palace, the two houses of Parliament waited. The royal brass band struck up the Song of the King. In walked an old gentleman as precariously thin as a Nordic Don Quixote. He bowed right & left, then took his seat on the ermine-draped throne, beside a taboret bearing the crown which he had never actually worn (he disapproves of elaborate ceremonies). Then Gustaf V, King of Sweden, of the Goths and the Wends, began his speech from the throne. It was a comfortable occasion. His Majesty had delivered substantially the same...
Slating Memorial Hall as the scene of the revived Freshman Smoker, the '51 Committee handling the event get down to brass tacks Tuesday and last night, and elected Ralph Waverly Judd '51 of Yakima, Washington, and Thayer Hall as its chairman...
Numbers? The priest answered with a blend of military discretion and brass-hat vanity: "We have them in every important city in the north-Milan, Genoa, Turin. There we are roughly equal with the enemy. They outnumber us in Sesto San Giovanni. We outnumber them 3 to 1 at Varese . . . by 4 to 1 at Bergamo and 2 to 1 at Brescia. . . ." Milan's A.C. was not the only Catholic resistance group. In Rome (and elsewhere) Catholic youths organized and marched...
...money was spent for. The composer himself had explained his work: "If it is broad and sweeping, as the judges say it is, it comes from viewing the high plateaus of the Wasatch Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor: "Those 25 Gs could have fallen into much, much less able hands...