Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knocked out the only Atlantic port big enough to drydock the battleship Tirpitz, the dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass hats were at last realizing the vulnerability of the 100-mile wide Brittany peninsula...
...long, as Premier Tojo warned, but the tide of defeat had turned and was now a thunderous southward surge of victory. The Emperor had even deigned to show himself, astride his white horse, to receive the banzais of his subjects. In the parks of Tokyo, the people thrilled to brass bands blaring the fervent strains of Kimigayo...
Herbert Morrison had some supporters, among them Humorist A. P. Herbert, who said of the Mirror's attacks on brass hats: "By God, that particular passage about the Army is a damned disgusting blackguardly thing...
Shot Directly? In the pubs there was wild talk that "blacketeers" should be shot, preferably along with brass hats and Government officials smudged from the disastrous campaigns in Norway, France, Crete and Singapore. The British had always groused-it was their national small talk-but rarely had so many groused so grumpily as they did now. The Communist Party claimed to have doubled its membership (to 40,000) in two months. The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, told a mass meeting in Liverpool and a tea fight in Park Lane that "this feeling that the Soviet...
...that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable in the highest spots...