Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educated people. Well, at least we have a veneer"). Meanwhile, to keep up the rent payments, Yolaine Randall took a modeling job (sneered Sol: "All she can model is coats. Have you seen her legs? They're horrible"). Meanwhile, Sol got a job as cashier at the Brass Rail restaurant...
...Passos, the first speaker declared that "socialism is a reality today," although at present, a political "hot potato; a pair of brass knuckles for politicians...
...SHAPE'S annual dining-in affair in Paris, glittering with NATO's top brass, slightly offbeat but recognizable supper music rose from the Royal Canadian Signal Corps band under the batons of amateur conductors, choppy General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and his first deputy, stabby Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
Ridgway claims, and most of the high Army brass agree, that we need a large Army, equipped with both atomic and "conventional" weapons. This idea cannot be dismissed as obvious or as mere self-seeking on the part of the generals, although present Administration policy envisions a greater and greater dependence on weapons of mass-destruction and a smaller and smaller Army. Appealing as this may be to high-ranking Air Force officers and prospective draftees, it means inevitably a diminishing ability to handle the possible "brush-fire" wars that threaten sporadically in the Near and Far East. In other...
Behind the Figures. Hughes began work on the 1957 budget last May, when he sat down with the President, Treasury Secretary Humphrey, a group of economists and other brass to block out the broad policies that would shape the year. At that first meeting they aimed toward a balanced budget, assumed continued prosperity and no hot war. In June the Cabinet approved the basic assumptions. Then Hughes wrote policy letters to each agency head, giving him the broad guide lines, asking for a 5% cut, setting a tentative department budget ceiling, and requesting estimates by Sept...