Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy brass hats, already concerned with the problem of getting good officers for an outsize peacetime Navy, were glad to know that so many reservists planned to stand...
...Brass Rings. In San Francisco, merry-go-rounders went round & round & round while the attendant was too occupied in a fist fight to shut off the motor...
...Burmese girl from whom, coil by heavy coil, the brass wire of her immemorial feminine bondage is unwound, baring a deformed neck almost too weak to sustain her emancipated head...
...battle began more than two years ago, when the Senate Naval Affairs Committee's bumbling, lumbering isolationist chairman, David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, inserted a no-overseas-duty amendment to the bill creating the women's reserve. (WACs have long been overseas.) Whenever Navy brass hats appeared asking for WAVES overseas, Senator Walsh demurred, even after the House passed such a bill twice. By last week not even Dave Walsh could offer any valid reason for keeping all of the 77,000 WAVES, 19,000 Women Marines, and 9,000 SPARS from completely safe spots overseas. Admiral Nimitz...
...Afraid of America." That night, in Philadelphia's cavernous Convention Hall, Dewey got down to brass tacks. In his second sentence he drove home again the fact -his favorite-that the next President will serve largely in peacetime...