Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always perturbing somebody. During the war it was U.S. brass hats and the Japanese Empire indifferently, though in different ways. But carefree Marine Ace Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington never caused himself any perturbations. Two months ago he gave himself a new chance to feel qualms by becoming violently enamored of a blond ex-movie actress named Mrs. Frances Baker. This might well have disturbed a lesser man-for until he met Frances, he had been under the impression that he was about to marry a Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson. But Pappy resigned himself happily to the new turn of events...
...Boos for Brass. In Manila, where G.I.s started sporadic demonstrations several weeks ago, the noise was loudest. Dis integration of the soldierly virtues had shown in drunkenness, reckless driving, carelessness in dress. Then demonstrations became organized...
...stared quietly at the men he had called around him: the United Electrical Workers' big, red-faced Albert Fitzgerald; the Auto Workers' paunchy R. J. Thomas and lithe Walter Reuther; all the other C.I.O. brass. He told them, bluntly and plainly, who was going to run the C.I.O.'s strike strategy in the coming critical weeks...
...minds, this was not good enough. In Manila, the news completed a breakdown in Army morale, started thousands of men protesting and demonstrating. In speech and pamphlet, leaders of the "Going Home" agitation struck out against "imperialism," "militarism," the big brass, War Secretary Patterson, Congress-even businessmen. Highpoint men threatened to "lie down" until sent home; 12,000 men booed an explanation of the slowdown offered by Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer...
...began as just another brass hat's press conference. UNRRA's boss in Germany, Lieut. General Sir Frederick Edgworth Morgan, wanted to discuss a problem: the thousands of Jews who were streaming out of Poland into Germany...