Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yawned in the lower valleys, and out popped the arctic poppy, shooting star, lupine and forget-me-not (Alaska's official flower). And now, after a long winter's self-imposed confinement, out lumbered the great Alaskan bears-and with them the sudden sparkle of high military brass from Washington, who, it just so happens, favor the bear season as the best time for Alaskan inspection trips...
They began arriving at 10 a.m. by the dozens, then by the hundreds. By noon there were nearly 15,000 -ordinary citizens, students with placards of welcome, brass bands, civil servants, diplomats, Congressmen, Cabinet members and the President of the U.S. -crushing around the DC-6B just landed at Washington's National Airport. In the plane's doorway appeared Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, back from their tumultuous 18-day tour of Latin America. This was their homecoming, rare in its deep-felt warmth...
...thick traffic of the working-class suburb of Catia, the caravan slowed to a crawl, then halted. Several hundred rioters came running. They ripped the U.S. and Venezuelan flags from Nixon's car, pounded the doors with clubs, pipes, brass artillery-shell cases. Grapefruit-sized stones smashed against the safety glass until slivers began flying through the inside of the car. A shower of glass struck Nixon, one piece lodging in his temple near his right eye (it was easily removed...
Afterward, brass bands come down the Champs-Elysees, the solemn Garde reépublicaine wondrously blowing trumpets and tubas from atop their dancing horses; they are followed by the cantering, cloaked Spahis. In the crowd, a man dressed in a shabby, purple-striped coat shakes a collection box, and the crowd remembers the day of which this is the 13th anniversary-that happy day in 1945 when Germany surrendered, when returning deportees, still wearing the purple-striped clothing issued them by the Nazis, danced in the streets of Paris, and ecstatic women in wooden shoes rode behind the Gardes Republicans...
Kadar and other Hungarian party brass. But at a rally next night the man whose insistence on Poland's separate road to socialism forced Khrushchev one night in October 1956 to call off Soviet armed intervention in Warsaw, for the first time spoke the required, craven words in support of Russian repression in Budapest: "We regard as correct and necessary the decision taken by the Soviet Union to give help to the forces of socialism in your country at the time. It was an international obligation on the part of the U.S.S.R., in the interests of the Hungarian people...