Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missing Man. The day after the autopsy, a brass M1 shell was found at a point near which the fatal shot had obviously been fired. The rifles of 21 men who had been nearest the position were checked by the New Jersey state police. The shell matched Edgar's Garand. The platoon was taken back to the area of the exercise and ordered to reconstruct the attack. Everyone turned up but Edgar, who had stolen a car and gone over the hill again...
...Japan and Korea: as fast as the diplomats make friends for us in that part of the world, many service personnel, with their cocky, bullying and overbearing mannerisms, lose these friends for us. How long will this careless attitude of some of the troops be tolerated by the top brass...
What the Met audience heard was Stravinsky gone autumnal. The music began with a brass fanfare in antique vein, worked its often dissonant way through a series of style movements reminiscent of Handel, Mozart and, occasionally, subdued Verdi. It had uncharacteristic lyrical moments, e.g., Tenor Eugene Conley's lament in the brothel scene and Hilde Gueden's pretty love song in the garden, and jabs of vulgar humor in Blanche Thebom's bearded-lady scenes. But it never found anything to get excited about, and rarely attempted to follow an idea very...
...Under Secretary of State, General Walter Bedell Smith, 57, who first joined the Indiana National Guard in 1910, became a downy-cheeked first sergeant at the age of 18, and grew up into something of a top brass curmudgeon, tried to explain his temperament to a Washington reporter. Said he: "It is possible that some of the less attractive characteristics of my personality were acquired at a very early age as an infantry sergeant...
Snow Camera. The Army's Research and Development Laboratories at Fort Belvoir, Va. got orders to design a special camera to take pictures of snowflakes. Army brass demanded that it be impervious to weather and so simple that a six-year-old child could work it with mittens on. The first model, completed in 40 days, is probably the most specialized camera ever built. It is prefocused, contains its own light source and magnifies three imes. When the operator inserts a snow sample on a sliding shelf and presses a button, he has his picture. The Army will...