Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Downs Sir: In the past few weeks this country has accustomed itself to the fact that we are technologically backward. I assume this will be properly investigated by the usual brass-bottom parties. But we are now faced with the fact that we are so inept and so ineffectual in the matter of public relations that we have advertised ourselves as dolts to the entire world...
Other editors noted the same quality. "Before I graduated," Robert W. Ruhl '03 said, "I talked with the other editors who had executive positions and they said Franklin had a lot on the ball and the nerve of a brass baboon... The man could, if he wished, charm the birdies right out of the trees...
Accused of killing Naka Sakai on a hilltop after luring her onto a rifle range with promises of spent brass cartridges (TIME, June 17), Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard entered a Japanese courtroom one day last week to hear the verdict of his celebrated 86-day trial. Girard, intoned Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi, was guilty...
Judge Kawachi spared no one in his summing up. He chided the band of Japanese shell-pickers scavenging the U.S. firing range for precious brass, implied that the U.S. military authorities at the range were almost criminally negligent, and said that Girard himself, "immature in his thinking, [had given way] to a childish whim . . . satisfying a momentary caprice." The sentence: three years' hard labor suspended (no jail time), and payment of witnesses' expenses...
...career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated it that year with a crude but scientifically overwhelming do-it-yourself kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, toy-sized four-inch magnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of window glass, brass and sealing wax. Nobel Prizewinner (1939) Lawrence is a humorous, vigorous man who steams around his labs with-as nucleonics folk term it-all rods in. He plays tennis, fiddles with television (he invented a color TV tube in his garage), explains: "You don't have to have genius...