Word: brass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surrounded by Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky and other smiling brass, Nikita Khrushchev proposed a toast to the Red army as "the only army that voted for its own liquidation." Since it was such a jolly occasion, he obviously meant his own disarmament proposals, and was not calling up the evil days of 1937-38, when the officer corps was decimated by purges. In the chandeliered glitter of the Kremlin's St. George Hall, Toastmaster Khrushchev went on to offer five more toasts on the 42nd anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, all of them in what Pravda called "the spirit...
...working newsman double in brass as a working public personality without fear of embarrassment? To some who busily try, the answer came last week...
...these decadent circumstances, network brass pleaded that they had been as much duped as the viewing public, but it became fairly well evident that, if they did not know about the quizzes, it was because they had not wanted or had not tried to know. The whole affair, wrote the New York Times, focused attention "on a shocking state of rottenness within the radio-television world and on the 'get-rich-quick' schemes through which so many people were corrupted and so many millions deceived. What has been revealed is deplorable in respect to the level of public...
...than the rule, and most of the critics admit it. The Times's Jack Gould even declines to take credit for getting the Security Council sessions onto the networks. Says he: "I only confirmed a general attitude." Says a network vice president in Chicago: "A lot of network brass would say, 'Oh, yes, we take the critics' opinion seriously,' but they get nothing but a chuckle behind closed doors...
Bridgeport Brass...