Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where for a day her husband's body, in a closed casket, had lain in state, visited by thousands of people.* There the dignitaries gathered: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, members of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, Taft's old friend, Douglas MacArthur. The muffled brass of the U.S. Marine Band echoed through the corridors, and Senator John Bricker spoke the eulogy. Taft, who had always gone armed with a sense of humor, would have appreciated the irony of such pomp and honor; in life, he had been more often damned than praised...
...Navy's top brass, the ideal Secretary of the Navy is a civilian who soaks up briefings, cuts an impressive figure before congressional committees, signs his name legibly and relies for all his decisions on the Navy's top brass. Navy...
...each national contingent, filed in and sat on metal chairs at one side of the hall; the Communist group sat at the other side. U.N. and Communist guards stood motionless around the walls. There were three large tables, one for documents, a second bearing a U.N. flag on a brass stand, the third with a North Korean flag similarly mounted...
...walked through the muddy, stinking, raucous market areas, holding his hand on his wallet, buying cheap souvenirs. There were fur caps and fur-lined boots, little carved figures, thousands of leather holsters and wallets, brass ashtrays and gaudy silk antimacassars, embroidered with the word "Korea," and the year. Behind the main streets, in the narrow alleys, he could purchase-with "no sweat"-scarce Army supplies, like light bulbs and radio batteries. There were piles of leather jackets from U.S. mail-order houses, gleaming rows of cheap watches smuggled in from Japan, gay shelves of Japanese cosmetics, even stacks...
...bones, he talked of "The Big R" (rotation) and "The Little R" (rest and rehabilitation leave in Japan). He knew to the day when he could expect to go home -"if too much stuff doesn't hit the fan and use up all the replacements," or if the brass didn't "push the panic button" and freeze rotation for a while...