Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force General Nathan Twining, his rakish fedora and hail-fellow grin somewhat more suggestive of a precinct boss on election night than a hard-working Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed up in mufti, as he often does, for a brass-tacks Monday conference with the President on military matters...
...Schutz: Symphoniae Sacrae-2-Bach; Gabrieli: Canzonas for Brass Choirs; MacDowell: Concerto #2 for Piano; Faure: Sonata #1 in A for Violin; Mozart: Mass in C; Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Brahms: Symphony...
...Gluck: Concerto in G Major for Flute and Orchestra; Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin in D; Dvorak: Symphony #5 in E Minor. Op. 95; Gabrieli: Canzonas for Brass Choirs; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture...
Stung by such a squad of cops gone bad, Top Cop Kennedy hauled 140 of the department's brass on his carpet, warned them to root out the bad ones or be rooted out themselves. Warned he: "There will be changes in the police department. The only things that won't change are ideals and principles...
...learn whether they were to be evacuated in Panagra planes standing by on Peruvian airfields. Siles called for another demonstration. Flanked by La Paz's archbishop, the armed forces chief and his Cabinet, he stood on a palace balcony before a throng of 25,000 which included a brass band. Again he called for calm, and again he was disobeyed. Led by Trotskyite Boss Victor Villegas, 200 men stormed police guarding the embassy. The police fired tear-gas shells, then pistols. A dentist was killed by a stray bullet. Then calm crept back to La Paz, but new violence...