Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doorbells & Brass Tacks. First to acknowledge the threat was G.O.P. Committee Chairman Len Hall. Said he: "Let us not underestimate the opposing party. They're strong and tough, and despite what they claim, they're well financed. Every single vote will count in this next election. Any Republican who feels this election is in the bag-who fails to register and vote-is taking a great risk." The pundits were calling the same signals. Hard-shell Conservative Columnist David Lawrence urged Ike to "get down to brass tacks and explain the issues...
Angry Liberals, bent on keeping Winner Ponce out of office, staged an uprising in Manabi province, and Liberal Deputies tried to organize a no-quorum strike to prevent Congress from declaring him President-elect. Both attempts failed. Out going President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, most of the armed-forces brass and an apparent majority of run-of-the-plaza Ecuadorians wanted to see Ponce take office for the sake of constitutional order...
...extremes, which stunts the country's economic growth by barring foreign capital from oil exploitation, began denouncing exports of radioactive material to the U.S. (thorium oxide and thorium-bearing monazite sand, no uranium). The showdown came last week, when the Security Council, loaded with nationalistic armed forces brass, adopted a military-dominated commission's recommendations that Brazil suspend exports of radioactive minerals and end the joint-exploration treaty with the U.S. President Kubitschek meekly gave the nationalistic generals their way. Still in effect was the "Atoms for Peace" agreement in which the U.S., without asking anything in return...
...most artful dodgers of a restaurant check in public life, affects a studied carelessness about his appearance. The famous 1952 photo of Stevenson's worn-out shoe sole was no contrivance; neither was the pair of eyeglasses he carried last spring−they had been mended with a brass safety...
...record-breaking flood of 19,664,472 words that poured through Western Union wires from both conventions in 1952. Not only were many small-city dailies and weeklies covering a convention for the first time, but press associations and major papers beefed up their staffs (and more brass went along for the show). Some staffs, like the 100-man word-and-picture teams assigned by the Associated Press and the United Press, went on the job with intricate battle orders and (for photographers and messengers) identifying armbands to avoid confusion. As usual, the biggest staff representing a single daily...