Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day he was worse. Weak and miserable, with stomach cramps and nausea, he was confined to his old-fashioned brass-knobbed bed in the third-floor corner chamber of the palace, while his physicians checked him meticulously to try to find out what was wrong. They seemed to find nothing organically amiss, attributed his illness basically to age and overwork. At week's end, the Pope seemed improved. Though still very weak, he was taking more food, it was announced, was able to hold hour-long conferences with top Vatican officials...
...trenchant analysis of scenario writers has brought the fascinating revelation that we win, primarily, not because the brass is so clever, but because our enemies are abysmally dumb. No piece of stupidity eludes them, and the dimmest of heroic intellects is more than a match for the whole general staff of any anti-U.S. army. Furthermore, Providence (Division of North American Affairs) has arranged that those nations that are first the enemies and then the allies of the United States regain their wits in time to help defeat the next moronic aggressor...
...stand with Rickover were Admiral Robert Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, and a swarm of the Navy's highest brass, industrialists. Senators, atomic scientists-and Sponsor Mamie Eisenhower, carrying a big bunch of roses and smiling pertly at everyone. The Coast Guard band played a specially written march, The Nautilus, and then there were the speeches. "A launching," said Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, "is always a prophetic and romantic occasion, but this literally transcends all which have gone before. For the Nautilus is ... something new under...
...Whale-Mouthed Whirlybird. A two-rotor military helicopter big enough to carry three jeeps or 26 fully equipped infantrymen was demonstrated for Marine Corps brass by Sikorsky Aircraft Co. A pair of clamshell doors swing wide to admit passengers or cargo through a whale-sized mouth. New features: retractable landing gear to cut air resistance, a five-bladed front rotor (the rear rotor has four blades). Speed: better than 150 m.p.h. Name: XHR2s...
...Sayonara, James (tales of the South Pacific} Michener mounts a soap opera on a soapbox. Placing his latest novel in Japan, he has rescored Puccini's Madame Butterfly for strings, brass, airplanes, and a social conscience. His latter-day Lieut...