Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Monday morning, Gilpatric as usual sat at McNamara's side during the weekly meeting with the Pentagon's top brass and civilians. That afternoon he slipped up to Capitol Hill to brief the administrative aides of some Senators and Congressmen on pending defense legislation. Next day Gilpatric accompanied McNamara to a White House policy meeting, that night sat down at an informal dinner with members of Congressman F. Edward Hebert's subcommittee, who had been critical of McNamara's plan to reform the reserves and National Guard. Later in the week, Gilpatric went back...
...Mariachi bands-along with the tootles of a platoon of organ grinders lined up at one intersection cranking out their own hurdy-gurdy serenade. As the presidential procession headed toward the Avenida de la Reforma, 10,000 troops presented arms, and rows of firemen snapped to salute with brass shovels. At historic Zocalo Square, the bells of the 16th century cathedral pealed a clarion welcome. And then came the confetti. 16 tons of the stuff, in a blizzard never before seen in Mexico...
...negotiates his "let us tell sad stories" speech affectingly on his knees, with both hands instinctively rising at "brass impregnable." When Bolingbroke later kneels to Richard, the latter says, "Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know, Thus high at least." Here 'Basehart properly clarifies the line by pointing to his crown on the word thus...
...speed of a navy signal light. In a berserk finale, Novak trades punches with a lady nurse the size of a Japanese Sumo wrestler, and Lemmon goes on a piston-legged, cliffside pursuit of an old lady's runaway wheelchair, with the old lady in it, while a brass band spiritedly renders I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General...
...closed-circuit television system will transmit the stage activities not only to the public bars and lobbies but also to backstage dressing rooms and the penthouse quarters of the Philharmonic's top managerial brass. For special events, such as children's concerts, a null TV screen will be lowered behind the stage, and when Leonard Bernstein says...