Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary last week (with stateside balls and pageants, with ceremonial "cake cuttings" in Marine messes everywhere), the corps could boast a growing weight of material advantages as well as these inner fires of elan. In the years after World War II, it had parried the persistent attempts of Army brass (including Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower) to whittle the Marines down to units of regimental size. It had hotly argued with critics who maintained that the A-bomb put its amphibious specialty out of business. And finally, amid the Korean emergency, it had won the right to rebuild...
This week, Victory's second chapter, The Pacific Boils Over, had TV critics cheering again. The Pearl Harbor attack is pictured, from a conference of Japanese naval brass all the way through the fateful Sunday morning when the carrier-based Japanese squadrons flew in low over Oahu's mountains. Televiewers are able to watch from enemy planes, as the bombs are released. Then, from harbor vantage points, the film recreates the American feeling of dazed disbelief as the U.S. fleet is crippled...
...Promoter. A sprightly British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
...formidable and handsome man-tall, erect, curly-haired and with a straight right capable of breaking a man's jaw. Ma was handsome and formidable too-once she hit a slum bully over the head with a ball bat and knocked him colder than a brass casting. But there the similarity ceased...