Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruined by sheer heavyhandedness. Major General Heyman arrived, but as the army communiqué put it, "the Mau Mau representatives came within a few hundred yards but something frightened them off." The "something" was 1,800 British and African infantrymen, poured into the area to protect the British brass...
...last week in pastel-painted Charlotte Amalie, the sign on the hangar that says "Harry S. Truman Airport" was tactfully shrouded by a big welcome banner. Next day Alexander, a Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands (pop. 26,665, of whom 91% are of Negro or mixed...
...defraud the Government, later served 6½ months in jail for hiring private detectives to shadow his jurors and for refusing to answer questions before a Senate committee. In his career, high-living Harry Sinclair was the first man to wear silk underwear on the Cherokee strip, donated brass bands to a dozen Midwest towns, and (to find out which had more money) challenged Colonel Jacob Ruppert to a contest at throwing dollars into the Atlantic Ocean...
...plants than his wife, Queen Juliana, ignoring criticism of the Prince's risky flying exploits in America (the engine of one of his planes conked out; another crashed a week after he flew it, killing his recent copilot), promoted Bernhard in all of her armed forces. Tripling in brass, the Prince is now a lieutenant admiral in the Royal Netherlands Navy, a general in the Royal Army, a general in the Royal Air Force...
...automatic record-changer and is about to take a flyer in the manufacturing end of the newly born radio industry. Peter Domanig promises to be a Lanny Budd-of-all-trades, and Author White certainly does not intend to cramp his style. He has already announced two forthcoming sequels, Brass and Gold...