Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navymen recently marched up the Hill to tell Congressmen what they wanted. This was the postwar force which the Big Brass outlined...
...officer-enlisted man complex was still terrific. I still felt inferior in the presence of brass, afraid to open my mouth, afraid to talk to them on an equal basis...
...Brass & Bounce...
...scraped Danubian plain blazed like brass: Hungary, one of the bounteous nations of Europe, would this year require six million quintals of wheat. Allied authorities started a vast woodcutting campaign in the Vienna woods, to supplement the capital's inadequate coal stocks...
Soon a familiar and unmistakable figure among New Deal Turks young & old. "Prich" had even the most bumptious of them aghast at his energy and his good-natured brass. On any point in economics, politics, history, the law or cocktail-mixing, an opinion from "Prich" came down with the crashing finality of a round from a 16-inch naval gun. No doubts assailed...