Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brass Backed. Smith never let himself get sloppy, was unafraid to take a gamble to put American out ahead. For example, while most other airlines were shunning New York's newly built La Guardia field in 1938 because they did not want the bother and expense of moving from Newark, Smith saw that the shift closer to Manhattan would improve service, switched American's New York base to La Guardia. New York City was so glad to get American that the gamble paid off. Smith got a rock-bottom rental, and the other airlines were eventually forced...
...Middle brass' to 'Top brass...
...other companies, it is an attempt at broadening a man's ability to handle his present situation. Company presidents, "top brass,' fall into this category of men who "have arrived," but who want to go places nonetheless...
Where Batista's mailed gauntlet was absent, Castro's brass knuckles took over. His gunmen hijacked still another Cubana airliner, this time with seven U.S. nationals aboard, forced it to crash-land in Nipe Bay. Early reports put the dead at 17 of 20 passengers and crew. In the backlands where rebel bands roam more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually...
...orchestra was kept busy much of the time with getting the notes out and trying to stay together, and gave a strong impression that the players were not familiar enough with the work. The brass section supplied a flaring vividness to the big passages, but as the last movement wore on, the effect was repeated with too much similarity, and became wearing...