Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith now directing American affairs in our most crucial foreign post, Moscow, and General Groves still in possession of a potent voice in the control of atomic energy, the appointment of General Marshall to the second highest position in the Government is the piece of brass which breaks the camel's back...
There were also admirals and generals, whose military money now shapes much U.S. research. To this first A.A.A.S. convention of the Atomic Age, the brass spoke reassuring words, on the social aspects of science. They were talking, they knew, to the men who would win future wars...
...commanders. When Generals MacArthur and Marshall return to pick up the two additional degrees promised them in their absence, Mr. Sargent's disgust will probably be complete. It has a right to be. Not only did the University go out of its way to kowtow to the brass, but its entire handling of the honorary degree situation served, not to enhance Harvard's prestige, but rather to bring it down to the sorry level of other similar institutions scrambling for a ray of reflected glory...
...djinn-infested Nuba is marched out of his village in a procession headed by a goat wearing a big brass bell. Victim and goat are buried alive. When the bell stops ringing, the tribesmen know that the goat and the man are dead, and the djinn is banished. Recently explorers in the Otoros came across the graves of two crippled children and a deaf-&-dumb woman. Last week police arrested 22 tribesmen for murder...
...Japs were likely to do, and warned Washington well in advance. As early as October 1940, Zacharias learned of an impending raid by Jap suicide planes on U.S. capital ships. The raid, of course, never came off, but "from then on, I expected a Japanese attack . . . momentarily." Navy brass, he says, shared this apprehension "only in the most perfunctory manner...