Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wisps of smoke still curled from the skeletons of charred buildings. Wrecked cars lay around the streets like swatted beetles. Sidewalks were buried under huge shards of glass and chunks of concrete that had filled the air at the riots' height. The glint of sunlight on thousands of brass cartridge casings gave the eerie look of an abandoned battlefield−which it was. "This is just a quietness," said a Negro minister. "The riot is not over...
...boyish derring-do and conviviality, and had delighted merchants with purchases of trinkets and gifts for the folks back home, including 60 long-playing record albums and three pairs of blue jeans. On a tour of Kung Kuan airbase, 80 miles outside Taipei, Ky got permission from Chinese brass to take a test spin in an American F-104, spent five minutes diving and banking, then taxied smartly up to the reviewing stand erected in his honor. He met with top Nationalist officials, conferred three times with 77-year-old Chiang Kaishek. Said Ky after his talk with the Gimo...
...high American officer was relieved of his command for what, so far as I could tell, was incompetence and nonperformance on a blatant scale, some of the homeside boys took this up and made him a martyr, ranting in paragraph after paragraph about the sins of the 'top brass.' I thought there was an air of needless controversy−professional hostility−about those reporters." Almost as if he were looking forward toward Vietnam, Rand concluded that the reporters were indulging in the same sort of "perfunctory muckraking, or imitation of crusading," that they thought...
...aborted the flight now, the astronauts would land in the Pacific recovery area where there were no helicopters within reach. At 18 revolutions, the spacecraft could splash down southwest of Bermuda, in the primary recovery area. The flight director called in his engineers, conferred with top NASA brass. Pride and prestige were involved; no manned U.S. spacecraft had ever failed to complete its planned mission. But Kraft, as ever, was the cool and deliberate flight engineer. He used every available moment to weigh every contingency. He ran a check of the spacecraft. All the key systems, such as cabin pressure...
...mother of six. Each morning at 5:30, Ramoo rises and trots off to the village well to bathe himself with buckets of lukewarm, silty water, then returns to his clay-walled hut and squats on the cow-dung floor for breakfast: a thick chapatty (wheat pancake) and a brass tumbler of scalding black tea. Ramoo owns only two bullocks, and with them he plods across his barren acres, dragging a steel-slivered plow designed in prehistory by some Indian prototype who faced the same harsh, crumbling earth. In a year, he raises scarcely enough to feed his bullocks...