Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cigars, Pecans. Some of his callers left gifts: a box of Philippine cigars (though Harry Truman does not smoke), a 10-lb. sack of pecans from a Louisiana Congressman (to remind him that there was an overproduction problem in pecans), a pair of engraved brass spurs (from the citizens of Monahans, Tex.). More were looking for presidential favors: Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall (a job for a friend), Philadelphia Realtor Albert Greenfield (a speech date), San Diego Journal Editor John Kennedy (a veterans' hospital...
...days later, 20,000 smartly uniformed Communist troops marched in, with two brass bands. They had left their Russian trucks outside the city, displaying only the U.S. ones which they had captured from Chiang's armies. Picked Nationalist soldiers grimly guarded the Reds' line of march. Beneath pictures of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung (none of Joseph Stalin), sound trucks blared: "Long live the liberation!" Crowds watched the Reds in silence...
...margarine Communist. In a pamphlet entitled "The New Democracy" (1940), Mao carefully explained how he intends to rule China. The pamphlet is a clear statement of the "soft" line which the Reds use in a "given historic phase,". i.e., until they are strong enough to use brass knuckles. China, says Mao, is still largely a "feudal" country. Before it can have its Communist revolution against the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie must first have its revolution against "feudalism." These two separate steps (which occurred centuries apart in Europe) can, in China, be blended into a continuous process. But the first step...
...nearly 150 tiny houses which dot the old old Cambridge area were made of Savogran and brass reinforcements on a scale of one inch to 30 feet. Pitman's assistants combined dried seaweed and twisted wire into threes, while grated moss sprayed with paint made realistic earth for the project...
...trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under their tobacco-brown varnish, the paintings shone with light and space; they looked a little like Arcadia seen through a dusty brass telescope...