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Word: brasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yemen's mud brick capital, the forces of the revolution last week passed in review. Tribesmen galloped through the streets, wearing brass-trimmed bandoleers, with curved, wide-bladed djambias thrust into their brocaded belts. They were followed by camel troops, native levies in skirts and armed with muskets dating back to Napoleon, and new army recruits in crumpled khaki uniforms. From the second-floor window of his headquarters, the architect of the revolution, Brigadier General Abdullah Sallal, cried: "The corrupt monarchy which ruled for a thousand years was a disgrace to the Arab nation and to all humanity. Anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: Arabia Felix | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Once Again, with Feeling. Kennedy campaigns with all the trappings-brass bands, searchlights crisscrossing in the night, scores of motorcycle cops. It seems like 1960 all over again. His theme is certainly the same: the need "to get this country moving again." The Republican Party/ he repeats, says no to "progress," the Democratic Party says yes. Kennedy seldom gets specific about such issues as medicare and tax reform, but he quotes staccato statistics to show how G.O.P. minorities have blocked his programs:' "Last year 81% of the Republicans in the House voted against the area redevelopment bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: J.F.K. on the Stump | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...currently breaking box-office records. As the hero. Actor Bates (of Broadway's Look Back in Anger and The Caretaker) develops a penetrating study of a man's man who is fundamentally a mother's boy. As the heroine, Actress Ritchie is the golden-haired brass-brained tintype of the sort of girl men always look at twice but only take out once. And as the mother-in-law, Actress Hird is an out-and-out wedding-nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Matter of Wife & Death | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...call it a bar would be wrong. It is a saloon. And very much of the right sort--luxurious red interior, brass lamp fixtures, an exquisite Wurlitzer nickelodeon and, oy course, peanuts to throw at the villain of the melodrama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Melodrama | 10/11/1962 | See Source »

...empire bronzes that mark the turning point from realism to expressionism between the 15th and the 19th centuries. The most recent pieces of traditional art in the show are wood carvings 50 years old. The older things have survived because they are made of terra cotta. bronze, iron or brass; millions of wood sculptures have been destroyed over the ages by fire, termites, jungle damp or the iconoclasm of Christian missionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Dark Gift | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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