Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky Mountains, like a giant motel that was somehow mistakenly plopped down in a forest. Here and there a lonely figure in khakis scurried across the shimmering terrazzo courtyards and disappeared into a wall of glass. Then suddenly, into the woodland slumber burst the sound of a brass band and the clack-clack of boot-steps-and up the ramp into the spacious grounds marched 450 men, battlegarbed in steel helmets and full field packs. Their young faces were almost hidden by the helmets as they marched, and they strained to achieve a mature military aspect. Officers barked orders...
...Midway the next day were ordered to make a show of force and to dramatize U.S. concern. As an added evidence of U.S. activity, Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker turned up in Taipei to confer with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, his aides, and top U.S. brass in the area...
...Brass & Wax. By giving low-voltage kicks to moving ions (charged particles), Lawrence calculated that they could be made to whirl progressively faster in a closed chamber, reaching great speed and high voltages. They could then smash atoms and transmute elements. He first demonstrated this phenomenon with a crude but spectacular Rube Goldbergish kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, 4-in. electromagnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of glass, brass and sealing wax, all put together for $25. When he hooked this odd gizmo up to an ordinary electric socket, atoms whirled around faster than those emitted by radium...
Russians by the thousands crowded the site of Kuibyshev dam last week for the opening of the power station. There were brass bands and the Volga People's Choir, flags and gigantic pictures of Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev. As Party Boss Khrushchev stepped jauntily forward and cut the ribbon stretched across the lock gates, he beamed a toothy smile at cheering excursionists aboard the motorship Dmitry Pozharsky, the first vessel to pass through the locks. He moved on to the engine room of Turbine No. 17 and pulled the handle of the automatic starter. As the turbine began...
Born. To William Sylvester Girard, 23, ex-G.I. who was convicted last fall by a Japanese court (and put on suspended sentence) for shooting a Japanese woman scavenging brass from a U.S. Army firing range, and Haru Sueyama ("Candy") Girard, 30, who married him after the killing and before the trial: a daughter, their first child; in Ottawa, 111. Name: Roxanne Marie. Weight...