Word: brasses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spectacles were bloodshot. But his energy seemed undiminished. Briskly he greeted a small group of friends and-dignitaries, then hurried to a waiting limousine, bound for an immediate report to the White House. Long after his departure, the plane was still unloading exotic items of luggage: rugs, tapestries, brass coffee tables and other gifts from newfound Middle Eastern friends...
...those mysterious bits of sleight of hand they love so well, the Russians last week switched their occupation of East Germany from military to civilian control-something the Western allies did four years ago. The brass-heavy Soviet Control Commission was abolished, and General Vasily Chuikov, top man in East Germany for nearly four years, was nominally reduced to mere command of Soviet occupation troops in East Germany...
Tribute. In Pfaffenrode, East Germany, citizens quailed under the rebukes of high Communist brass who declared that the town had gone too far in naming its newest building, an insane asylum, after dead Communist Hero Ernst Thälmann...
...opportunity to feel him out on policy questions, and Wilson, in turn, gets posted on current problems in the services. On Tuesdays he has a standing appointment with the President and a meeting with the Armed Forces Policy Council, made up of the Pentagon's top civilian brass. On Wednesdays he meets with the National Security Council. On Thursdays he has a formal session with the service secretaries, and Fridays he attends Cabinet meetings...
...designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth of the new Queen). Tiny roses glowed with plastic radiance from lampposts along St. James's, huge plumed brass helmets gave swagger to others in old Piccadilly, and the famed statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus was encased in a huge, airy golden cage topped by a crown. There was even a mechanical nightingale in Berkeley Square (they tried a real one, but he would not sing). Everything gleamed...