Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diligent press officer invited correspondents to watch the raid as it was unleashed last week. At a forward observation post, where visiting brass was also on hand, the newsmen received printed timetables for the operation. The paper work was standard except for a fancy cover, decked with a two-color reproduction of the division's insigne. Inside, newsmen spotted the word "scenario...
...Ashantis; in that time, Gold Coasters have spanned centuries of progress. African girls, not long ago bartered for cattle, are studying to become doctors and nurses. Bulldozers are digging the foundations for a 500-bed hospital close to the spot where the British, in 1896, found a huge brass pan that was used to collect the blood from human sacrifices...
Research Director Harry Weaver told the top brass of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that a way has been found to treat polio virus with chemicals so that it is 1) too weak to cause the disease, but 2) still capable, when injected, of inducing the human system to manufacture antibodies. These antibodies (tiny protein particles in the blood) will protect the subject against a later invasion of full-strength polio virus. Admittedly, said Dr. Weaver, when the virus is weakened for injection, so is its power to spark antibody formation. But it keeps more of this power...
...invite the Politburo to govern us. Korea is neither Truman's war nor Stalin's war; it is another battle in the continuing struggle for the survival of Christian civilization, like Tours, Lepanto, Guadalcanal, and some lesser engagements like the one at the Little Big Horn. Brass-rail strategists would do well to acquaint themselves with the facts and lessons of history. Imperial Rome withered and decayed and was sacked by her mercenaries...
...been haunted by a movie, Scott of the Antarctic, for which he did the musical score, and he set out to re-create its frigid atmosphere in a symphony. He used a few of his themes from Scott-whales go lolloping by in the woodwinds, penguins waddle in the brass -plus the eerie sound of wordless women's voices. For the first time in his career he experimented with a whistling wind machine and a clanging vibraphone...