Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Already the Finns' hard-earned high living standard has largely disappeared. But still they are determined to fight on with a grimness and single-mindedness which left me, after a fortnight in Finland, with increased respect for Finnish fortitude and brass, awe at Finnish political obtuseness, but increasing pessimism regarding Finland's future...
Those seagoing bellhops, those brass-button queens...
...ship crashed 20 yards from the inspection party and skidded into a ditch, scraping the bombs along the rough ground. Among the brass hats who hit the dirt and hugged it were Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham and Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst. Said the philosophical pilot, emerging from the wreckage...
...everything. He loved music and the Bible, was a serious student of philosophy, strategy, religious history. He knew the Army manuals and the lives of all the great generals by heart. He spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew. He was a formidable and logical argufier and he loved to bait brass hats. He never suffered fools gladly...
...acrobatics of Hampton and pianist Milton Buckner, and the valiant efforts of eight Boston Symphony violinists kept the evening from being a dull one. Musically, however, the band displayed merely the polish and intonation of any well-rehearsed name band and its sole distinctive feature was a seven-man brass section which could probably out blow even the Basic of pre-war days...