Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncle Joe, Obie admits, was one of his most difficult subjects. He was drawn at the end of a crusty era, when the brass cuspidor was still a fixture on Capitol Hill. Cannon had six strategically placed about the Speaker's office and used them all as he received visitors and fretted while Obie drew...
...Brass Knuckles. Police had been tipped that a demonstration was coming, but they thought the demonstrators would use steps at the ends of the stage. Temporarily caught off base, the cops rushed in from the wings. One attacker, twisting Cole's foot, was wrestled until he let go; another swung on one of the cops and got a night stick across the head. Then eight cops armlocked the five out of the hall while Ted Heath's 18-piece British orchestra valiantly played America (also the tune of God Save the Queen) as order was restored. In jail...
...room in suburban Tokyo looked like any big classroom; on a dais at one end stood a desk and chair, behind them a blackboard. Some 250 people had checked their shoes at the door and filled the benches. Most of them were young; many wore the black, brass-buttoned uniform of the Japanese university student. Tadao Yanaihara, president of Tokyo University, entered, and the audience rose and bowed. They sang a hymn. Then Yanaihara sat down at the desk and lectured on the Bible for two hours and five minutes...
...operations and politics. Sometimes the consultant can apply know-how gained in a similar situation with another client. Most often, says Robert Heller & Associates, they find that the solution is right within the company: underlings know what should be done, but could not sell their ideas to the top brass...
...correspondents in the capital, conditioned in the Depression and under the New Deal, have political reflexes that respond favorably to Democrats, unfavorably to Republicans. They strengthen their reflexes daily by reading the Post, where their reactions are shared by most of the Post's top brass, including Managing Editor Al Friendly, 44, an active charter member of Americans for Democratic Action, and Publisher Graham himself...