Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that when a man reaches senior rank his mind automatically shuts? Such a generalization is ridiculous. Of course, there are some brass hats who are stuffed shirts. There are also countless numbers of them who are alert, open-minded men spending every ounce of thought, knowledge and energy they possess (and that is a lot) in running the Army and Navy with little glory and certainly not much understanding and appreciation to help them...
...Reader Honsinger says, some brass hats (like some bigwigs) are stuffed shirts. But in using such a useful common. term, TIME intends no derogation to the alert and able officers who boss the U.S. war machine...
When Sitting Bull's outlaw Sioux massacred General George Custer and five troops of the 7th Cavalry on the Little Big Horn, the U.S. rumbled with indignation. Amid all the furore the Army brass was struck by a wonderful idea-since it was almost impossible to catch mounted Sioux, why not take away their horses...
...agreed to a joint program (TIME, July 9). Last week 17 industrial and commercial trade unions were organized under a joint Communist and Social Democratic trade-union committee. Its leaders, both fresh from concentration camps, were Communist exReichstag deputy Roman Chwalek and Social Democratic trade-union leader Otto Brass, who for several years served as chief of his party's underground work in Nazi Germany...
Federated's brass hats were dead sure that the answer to the question was no. So, like many another corporation, they devised their own incentive plan, based on stock options (TIME...