Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price of Pride In Washington last week the Inter-American Defense Board, created by vote of the Conference of Foreign Ministers at Rio, got down to brass tacks, began to arrange convoys for those Latin American countries whose rupture of diplomatic relations with the Axis powers had led to submarine reprisals on their shipping. As 55-day voyages from U.S. ports to Bombay and Suez cut Allied tonnage on Latin...
...Washington's tax collector announced that all brass dog-license plates would have to be turned in this year before new ones-of fiber-were issued...
General Burns takes over Ordnance in June, when the four-year term of Major General Charles Macon Wesson expires. Under Brass Hat "Bull" Wesson, Army Ordnance had a mottled record. The start of World War II caught it without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece, and with its new soldier's helmet-to replace the neck-exposing World War I helmet-not yet in production. A year ago, most of official Washington still thought that Ordnance was bumbling and boggling, overdue for a shakeup. Since then it has done better, has brought in guns and tanks...
...clippings from his pocket and began reading from articles that Morrison himself had written for the Mirror before he became a member of the Government. One said that "the people want less muddled advice from the top"; another, that War Minister Hore-Belisha had been ousted by the brass hats because he wanted to democratize the army...
Operatic climaxes are usually marked by surging strings, blaring brass, rumbling kettledrums; but this time, when the crucial moment came, there was silence. Composer Randall Thompson had a good reason. He had made into a one-act, three-quarter-hour opera the last of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories: The Butterfly That Stamped-and the climax came at the earth-shaking but quite inaudible stamp of the butterfly...