Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coordinate #11 strategic bomber blows in the Orient, lean, affable Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon was doubling in brass as deputy commander of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force and as commander, Strategic Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas. For the present, he had to use his 6-243 (and occasionally some of his precious 6-295) to keep hammering at Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, whence Jap fighters took off to harry 6-295 bombing Honshu, and whence Jap bombers took off to bomb the Superfort base at Saipan.* Later, when bases nearer to Japan had been...
...Capitol. Another sample was the sour finale to Merrill's Marauders (TIME, Aug. 14). A more recent one: the handling of the production-slump story, which, instead of rousing the public to greater effort, provoked controversy and mistrust. A continuing one: overoptimistic sounding-off by various brass hats...
...originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
...would say, is classed as small but heavy, tannish color with white markings, hair similar to a collie's, had on broad, brown leather, brass-studded collar, wags tail in curve over back most of time. His habits are shaking hands with everybody, and with his left holds hands; also sits up and climbs a stepladder. His name is Rubanof...
When he built his home, he made a specific request-that the architect install, in a hidden recess in the fireplace (visible by removing a brass plate and turning on a hidden light), the five-cent boy's top he played with as a schoolboy in Rhode Island...