Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarmed up to the gallery. With an instrument made from stolen brass toilet parts, he spread the bars, squirmed inside and stood against the wall, waiting. Burch came back. Coy slugged him, took his rifle, .45 pistol, keys and let himself into D block...
...free to go your way, but not so in the Army. Instead, you get transferred to some disagreeable job, such as mess officer, or permanent kitchen police (if enlisted man). It's a courageous man who "quits" his job in the Army, or incurs the wrath of the brass and gets "fired." The consequences are unpleasant...
...Food Board (the U.S., Britain and Canada), which was more concerned with dividing up the existing supply than prodding production. When the demands grew more insistent, President Truman made an occasional conservation appeal to the people. But it was not until Feb. i that the Government got down to brass tacks. On that date, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson strode into a Cabinet meeting with the information that there would not be enough U.S. wheat to meet U.S. commitments, no matter how much the U.S. farmer produced...
Satchmo arrived with one of the biggest (19 pieces), brassiest, and worst bands he ever had-a kind of unintentional satire on everything wrong with big bands: saxophonists who stood up and writhed as they played; a brass section with a nose for noise rather than an ear for melody. He opened last week at "The Aquarium," a gaudily mirrored Broadway seafood restaurant stampeded nightly by tourists and servicemen, who lined up three deep...
Said the committee: "Salaries have been determined by private treaty rather than in accordance with any recognizable plan. Under such a system, it is inevitable that the bargaining power of the individual (by no means a sure gauge of his value to the university), favoritism, brass and sheer luck would be important factors in salary determination...