Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy with U.S. brass. Local lawyers and accountants should be hired to run interference in dealing with the tangle of tax laws and bureaucratic red tape. In Rome, for example, only an Italian could have a feel for the legendary way of doing business known as arrangiarsi-roughly, arranging things to one's best advantage...
During the Korean war, Sharp briefly commanded a destroyer squadron, then began a series of staff jobs. In 1960 he was appointed a vice admiral and served in the top-brass "E" Ring of the Pentagon as deputy chief of naval operations for plans and policy. There he earned a reputation as a sharp-tongued perfectionist. Recalls one officer: "There was no loose thinking, no folderol permitted. He is a forceful, concise, meticulous...
...stuff on the screen at the opening of new hearings into video violence. Noting that programs "featuring violence" constitute 55.3% of ABC's prime evening time, 55.1% of NBC's and 26.5% of CBS's, Connecticut Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd lectured the net works' top brass: "You don't care. Anything for money. Keep at it and you'll bring on controls...
...Brass to Brass. Surprised and uneasy, new U.S. Ambassador General Maxwell D. Taylor paid a brass-to-brass call on Khanh, firmly reminded him that he was out of line with American policy. Khanh, in effect, replied that he was enunciating South Vietnamese policy, not U.S. policy-a specious argument, since no South Vietnamese thrust northward could possibly succeed without massive U.S.involvement...
...morning, they were there. Accompanied by close to 50 brass bands, some 500 horses and at least two camels, they swarmed into Manhattan 150,000 strong, occupied 85 hotels and motor inns, added to the traffic jam, monopolized sidewalks, held seven-hour-long parades, and displayed a keen group sense of humor in a thousand hilarious ways, including occasionally entangling innocent natives in loops of invisible thread. They wore red fezzes, red and green floppy harem trousers, and embroidered jackets, and looked like wandering extras from The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. They were the respectable and respected members...