Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound tables and raise hell to get things done," says Link. "When the directors say tomorrow, I tell them I'm camping right here until you get going." When he was hired, he told Petrobrás brass: "I'm a capitalist and a strict believer in private enterprise. But leave me alone and I'll do the job." Link still feels that private foreign oil companies are needed in Brazil. "The more people you have looking for oil the better," he says...
...into warrens of one-room offices." and these are shared by so many doctors that they have become little more than mail drops for fee-hungry physicians who know the value of a Harley Street address. A single doorway may be almost solidly covered with as many as 40 brass name plates. Some names stand for reputable young consultants who are on the way up; far too many, says Asher, stand for phony "consultoids" and for outright charlatans and quacks...
Some of the nation's top brass have tried to point out that the U.S. Marine Corps has outlived its usefulness. It is doubtful that they would find many Americans now in Lebanon in agreement...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis from 1947-50-he was the youngest in 50 years-he was shocked to discover Academy-based enlisted men living near by in trailer camps. A midshipman's first lesson must be concern for enlisted men's welfare, he told the brass in Washington, and Annapolis of all places must set the example. He came away with the first Wherry housing units the Navy ever...
Most important, she has the rare ability to play the kind of emotional brass that shivers the spine. Ernestine singing My Man somehow makes believable a woman's capacity to suffer a man who "isn't good, isn't true," but to whom nevertheless she will "come back on my knees some...