Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper of high moral tone because it refuses to cover sodomy cases or "trials involving indecent assaults on children." But the Overseas Weekly, an English-language tabloid published in Frankfurt, West Germany, balks at little else, takes particular delight in headlining the missteps of military brass. By last week, the Overseas Weekly had claimed a two-star victim...
...jingly sentimentality I award that the 1961 Archibald MacLeish prize, a brass loving cup inscribed "Blow on the coal of the heart...
...rapture of a worshiper on his knees before his deity, and it can be applied to almost anything to indicate a kind of beauty and virtue. As Poet Robert Graves explained it last week to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, a battered brass cooking pot can have baraka, but not a new spun-aluminum one; an old pair of trousers may have it, or a poem, or a wonderful one-hoss shay...
...measure to stem the outflow of U.S. gold, President Kennedy banned the future sale of all non-U.S.-made goods in overseas military exchanges, including Scotch whisky. On Formosa, preparing for the visit of Vice President Lyndon Johnson, U.S. brass were vexed to find that they could not supply the standard L.B.J. ration of Cutty Sark. They flew some in from the nearest source-Hong Kong...
...threat to his regime was the huge army. Nevertheless he pushed ahead with his campaign promise to trim 200,000 men out of the 600,000-strong armed forces, whose maintenance takes over half of the entire South Korean budget. That angered the generals; General Magruder and visiting Pentagon brass declared their grave concern at the troop cuts...