Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief talk to the brass. Johnson recalled that "a friend of mine, observing some of my problems, recently sent me for my desk a quotation from a Roman consul back in 168 B.C." The consul was Lucius Aemilius Paulus, speaking to the Roman Senate, which had picked him to lead Rome's legions in the Macedonian war, then heaped criticism upon his conduct of that war. Said Paulus: "I am not one of those who think that commanders ought at no time to receive advice; on the contrary, 1 should deem that man more proud than wise who regulated...
...news, Barrientos called a meeting of military leaders. This time most of the brass was on his side. Ovan do was reportedly accused of weakening at a critical moment of battle and of negotiating an unauthorized cease-fire that for the moment, at least, scotched the junta's plans for taking over the mines. The face-saving decision was made to move him up to "co-President," where he will no longer have independent authority as army commander in chief. "Don't kid yourself," said one observer, "the current byplay was written, staged, choreographed and directed by Barrientos...
...Bernardo. "We live below the labor department's poverty line." Thus there are duds as well as diamonds among TAs. One Harvard fellow candidly rates 20% of the TAs in his department as "obtuse and useless pedants." And undergraduate uneasiness about being distant from top-brass teachers is widespread throughout the best U.S. universities...
...wife, therefore, was at a loss about what to get him for his birthday. So she consulted the attendant at a local gift emporium. "Why don't you give him a nice smipe?" the helpful fellow suggested. "We have a very fancy one made of embossed leather and brass." "The very thing!" cried the wife in delight, realizing that a smipe was the one thing her husband didn't have. Needless to say, the man was ecstatic over his present, and for a week he did nothing but play with it. He'd go out merrily into the woods, catch...
...fallen enough to be appreciated. The prices of industrial raw materials, often forerunners of more general price movements, have climbed 14% in a year. Tin and zinc prices have been edging up, and a worldwide jump in copper prices two weeks ago brought immediate markups in copper and brass products; last week aluminum producers lifted prices on a broad range of products. Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler believes that if this trend accelerates "we may have some problems," but that so far it is "not a cause for alarm...