Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course the heartbeat of the conference will be the daily private meetings where the businessmen of the Americas will get down to the brass tacks of specific investment propositions. To date, outlines and proposals for more than 150 projects have been received. The range of these projects covers practically the entire investment field from agricultural development and consumer-goods manufacturing to mortgage and finance companies, steel mills, new construction and industrial development...
...hero as a young man is aimless and faceless, in love with an equally faceless, eminently boring girl, and finally driven to leave Pompey's Head for no convincing reason. The returning adult hero has a perfunctory fling with an old flame in the big brass bed in which he slept as a youngster: "And when at last he possessed her, in a wholeness of possession he had never known or dreamed, past and present came thundering together." But the thunder is hollow: not for a moment is even the most optimistic reader allowed to think that Lawyer Page...
...guest with the most reason for satisfaction was Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who long fought the pressure of Navy brass and the skepticism of many scientists about the practicality of nuclear power. (As late as 1949, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer said, "Nuclear power for planes and battleships is so much hogwash.") In last week's test runs, the Nautilus behaved as well as Rickover and his associates hoped it would. Afterwards an officer confidently reported: "Hell, we could have gone to Europe and back without coming up." The Nautilus is powered by steam turbines. The heat comes from...
...spread of dissent, wide as it was, apparently was not strong enough to break Togliatti's hold. In the course of the conference, he summoned party brass into a private meeting to consider disciplinary measures against the rebels, Pietro Secchia among them. Some demanded expulsion from the party, but Togliatti talked Secchia into suppressing his demands for sterner policies in return for a promise of no reprisals against the rebels. Then, Palmiro Togliatti strutted back into public view to pretend, by sarcasm and ridicule, that such a thing as dissent had never existed. "Comic . . . ridiculous . . . grotesque," said Togliatti. "These...
...motivated, he added, by "fear of friction with Spain, which is so financially dependent upon us it is absurd." Thundered the National Association of Evangelicals: "An affront to all true Protestants." Flustered by the outcry, the Pentagon called an urgent conference of State Department and Air Force brass and tried to soothe everyone. The agreement has not yet been signed, said General Kissner, and when it is, it "would assure to all of our people here the traditional American right to worship according to the dictates of their consciences...