Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present and for the foreseeable future, Japan is solidly encamped with the free world. But she is going to stay in camp on her own terms. Unfortunately stubborn SCAP brass give little if any indication that they appreciate the difference between an army of occupation and a security force in a sovereign nation. The occupiers' unwillingness to give up the privileges-the luxury houses, the cheap and plentiful servants, the free schools-they have enjoyed for six years is understandable enough; the men who have run the most benevolent occupation in history have little to apologize for. But they...
...hordes of students in for the next two days. The scene that got them was when Howard stepped out on a balcony, took a deep breath, and shouted inside to his house-keepers, "My heavens, James, it's very cold out. You better bring in the brass monkeys...
NATO (12 nations), meeting in Rome. The rank and brass of the North Atlantic alliance assembled in what used to be known as the Foro Mussolini, a flamboyant pile of buildings, Gargantuan statues and stone slabs commemorating Fascist triumphs. Heading the yoman U.S. delegation: three cabinet members (Acheson, Lovett and Snyder) and the nation's top ranking soldier, General Omar Bradley...
...situation which irritated the American visitors, and most of them said so. "It's time for you fellows to get down to brass tacks and do this job," said...
...Southern Pacific Railroad, the No. 2 U.S. road in trackage (12,441 miles),* prides itself on the fact that it trains its own brass. Its top officers have worked up from shirtsleeves, spent all their working years with the railroad. Last week, as President A. T. Mercier approached the compulsory retirement age of 70, Southern Pacific's directors had no trouble finding his successor: Donald J. Russell, 51, executive vice president, who moves into his new job in January as the youngest president in the railroad's history...