Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...astonish those who know him and Germany. He has been portrayed to the world as a jack-rabbity little mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler. Actually, he is smart. He has a kind of courage. He understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
...liberal arts courses to be given in these programs offer the best opportunity for the infusion of some liberal education into the education for war. This can only be accomplished if, after prescribing the broad outlines of the curricula, the men in the brass hats step aside and allow the educators to determine the details of the planning and instruction of the courses. The danger is that the Army and Navy may go further than the presentation of an outline, into questions of selection and presentation of material, with an eye to using these courses in History and English strictly...
...loud & long. Before the shrine stood a priest in a massive turban and with the holy mark gleaming on his forehead. The bells and the drums and cymbals ceased their clamor. Gently moving his hands, the priest led the congregation in a song. Offerings of flowers and sweets on brass plates were made to the deities. Then began a prayer for the life of a scrawny little man, toothless, moneyless, helpless Mohandas Gandhi...
...scene: Manhattan's annual Westminster dog show last week, shortly before the judging for best-in-show.) A brass band blared, the Dog Writers Association (just what it sounds like) stopped pecking at their typewriters, and 24 shepherds, Dalmatians and Doberman Pinschers paraded around the arena of Madison Square Garden. They were no prize pooches but hard-working war dogs recruited by Dogs for Defense, Inc., for whose benefit this year's Westminster show was staged...
Each weekday morning Oliver the physician, wearing a bailiff's brass badge pinned to his waistcoat, let himself into a dingy little room in Baltimore's Court House. It was a simple place, filing cases bulging with records of human wretchedness, a medicine table, a first-aid kit, a couch with sagging springs. There he helped unravel twisted lives caught by the law. Some got a sedative, but Dr. Oliver first tried, to win their confidence and get them to talk, "for confession and expression are good for the soul, even better than four tablespoonfuls of aromatic spirits...