Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockies gave the Colonel his first idea. As soon as he landed in San Francisco, he telegraphed the Trib: "When the brass ceases preparing for the last war, it will find these mountain tops excellent places for antiaircraft artillery. . . . They will produce surprise fire on the invader. With air shelters for our people, mountain top . . . artillery and a superior air force, we can, as always, defy the world...
...came into Boston harbor four days later with a broom tied to her mast in token of a clean sweep rescue, she was given a tumultuous reception. Small craft swarmed around her, fireboats threw spray, whistles blew. Thousands lined the waterfront to see her. City officials and Coast Guard brass came aboard to offer captain and crew their congratulations and a horde of reporters descended on the Sky Queen's passengers...
...Develop Revolution." There was evidence that the U.S. was making up its mind. In recent days the Athens airport had resembled Washington's Boiling Field. White-starred C-54s of the Air Transport Command brought a stream of tight-lipped generals and high-ranking brass of the Air Force and Marine Corps, who hurried off to conferences and staff consultations. Some bounced in jeeps along the cratered, axle-snapping roads of Macedonia and Thrace, to inspect Greek Army units. Offshore, units of COMNAVMED, including the carrier Leyte, prowled around the Aegean islands...
...purpose worriers went about their work in a state of controlled panic. In the dingy dressing rooms, the perfumed atmosphere was intolerably tense. A sudden gleam came into the dull eyes of 375 backstage spotlights. Almost imperceptibly, the curtain rustled up. On one side of the stage was a brass bed containing a mother & child. On the other side, a mixed chorus in turn-of-the-century costumes began to sing...
...Meets World. The storyline of Allegro is simple enough; up to the halfway mark, in fact, it is the story of every middle-class American boy. Joseph Taylor Jr. (John Battles) is a small-town doctor's son, born in a brass bed, brought up in a frame house, educated at a public school, packed off to a proper college, united with his father in the practice of medicine, united with his first love in the business of matrimony. His mother (Anna-mary Dickey) dies. His success-loving wife badgers him into moving to a big city, acquiring...