Word: brass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...games are permitted, and only cons with records of good behavior can be appointed dealers. They "buy" a table for 75 cents a week, split the take with the prison, which uses its share for the recreation fund and for the purchase of eyeglasses for needy inmates. Players draw "brass" (scrip) from their personal accounts (maximum $20 a week), never handle real cash, since an accumulation of "street money" might give a prisoner big ideas about escaping. Gambling hours in the small, dim, rock-walled "casino" are carefully regulated...
...wear robes with national markings). The Irish-Americans who helped found the college considered green, but the final choice was black cassocks with red buttons and sash and blue facings which, together with a white Roman collar, added up to the U.S. colors (the first class even had a brass star on each shoe strap...
Waiting for the President's plane at Palm Springs were red-faced official greeters: as Ike came down the ramp, windblown sand-not brassy sun-tingled his face, forcing him to bend almost double to avoid the sting. Spirits lifted as the President received a brass putter, welcoming gift from the city fathers of the "Winter Golf Capital of the World" (pop. 15,000). Grinning, Ike brandished the putter, climbed aboard a helicopter to fly 14 air miles to the hastily spruced-up Allen home. The housekeeper, Mrs. Emmet Reed, had opened the three-bedroom stucco bungalow...
Aggrieved as they might have been, her old friends would hardly have murdered her. One of Sapphire's earlier landladies more accurately suggests the killer's motive, asks: "Would you be pleased with a brass sovereign...
...Imperial General Staff, stood in the midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking-to (eventually he won his appointment). Time and again later, Wingate was to go over the heads of his field commanders and appeal successfully to the topmost brass, right up to Prime Minister Winston Churchill...