Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mauldin's favorite gripes, which are the gripes of all infantrymen. Among them: revulsion at "spit & polish" in the field; envy of rear-echelon men who take over the towns after the infantrymen have captured them, occupy all the best spots and drink all the liquor; disdain for brass hats full of arrogance and stuffing...
...barracks sally-ports, sudden as buckshot, burst cluster after cluster of one of the best-disciplined groups of young men in the world. Uniformed in grey and white, studded with shiny brass and topped with towering, plumed "tarbuckets," they fell in quickly, wheeled sharply, flowed in one trim mass onto the broad green Plain that tops the granite-cliff shores of the Hudson at West Point...
With the grinding strain of the war years suddenly lifted, top generals itched for a little relaxation. London street crowds shoved and craned in excitement last week, as once-grim brass hats appeared in theaters and night clubs...
...Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; it will be used to study bombs, shells and rockets. Air is compressed into a 32-ft. steel sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow are taken through thick glass ports...
Little has appeared in these columns about Harvard's Civil Affairs Training officers, formal name for the uniformed brass hats who joke in Japanese and swear in Japanese and even try to think in Japanese...