Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refute it: "I challenge him to be specific and tell the American people in plain English wherein he disagrees with the Truman-A.D.A. program . . . The people have had enough of his fancy-striped-pants language, meaning all things to all people. They want Stevenson to get down to brass tacks...
...month he paid off on his lOUs, air force officers in droves sold their cars for his notes, which were soon known at all air bases as felipetas. When the Air Ministry heard of his dealings and called him in, the lieutenant explained himself so convincingly that the big brass offered to sell him their cars. But he was advised to switch to a reserve commission and give all his time to business...
Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett and other top brass gathered in the Pentagon to watch Acting Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining pin the Distinguished Flying Cross on veteran Barnstormer Speed Pilot Roscoe Turner for his "contributions toward the advancement of the science of aerial flight." It was awarded by an act of Congress, and the first time in 20 years that the D.F.C. has been given to a civilian...
...beluga whale, come in to feed on salmon. It was not the first whale which had shied away from their "stethoscope": in earlier efforts the hunters had been unsuccessful. This time a husky cannery worker got a good grip on the patient : he drove home a pair of brass-headed harpoons wired to a portable electrocardiograph...
...across the U.S. last week, the midsummer air was resounding more or less tunefully as thousands of other summer music students neared commencement time with a scraping of catgut, tootling of brass and a thumping of piano keys. Among them...