Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them, and it was made almost inadvertently in the hurry to get a 1,500-man U.S. battle group to Berlin a week after the Wall went up in August 1961. At the Marienborn checkpoint, the Russians complained that they could not get an accurate count. With brass bands, massed crowds and Vice President Lyndon Johnson waiting impatiently in Berlin for the convoy to arrive, Colonel Glover S. Johns Jr. ordered his men to dismount to speed things up. Ever since, the Russians have frequently demanded that troops in large convoys get out of their vehicles to be counted...
...both surprised and saddened when I read the Brass Tacks entitled "The Governor's Address." Somehow you "sensed" the I was unhappy during the Wallace talk and you deduced that this so-oalled unhappiness stemmed from my awareness that I had "cheated" the audience. I do not see how you can sense and deduce all that without even having once spoken...
...kicking up sparks at his heels; a man scooting into a sidewalk pissoir an instant before it was riddled with machine-gun fire (five minutes later he dashed out unhurt). As tanks whipped off bursts of ammunition, children would duck right under the smoking muzzles to pick up the brass cartridge cases...
...Braun, 51, was visiting Argentina. His several lectures on the U.S. moon program were in such German-accented English that even Argentines who hablan inglés could hardly a word begreifen. But as it turned out, Wernher was there to listen, not talk. Argentine military and scientific brass had asked him down to hear all about South America's leading space program. Proudly, they explained that right now a mess of mice were being given extensive psychological and physiological tests so that the perfect 4-oz. moustronaut could be selected for the first 50-mile launch atop...
...last comes in a magnificent sequence detailing the end of the journey made by the Prince and his family to their summer palace in a village above Palermo. Descending from dusty carriages, Don Fabrizio is greeted by a host of punctuous officials and the jaunty blaring of a brass band. With deliberate steps, he walks the gauntlet of gaping, impoverished eyes to enter the cathedral where the organ is playing an aria from "La Traviata." As the last notes hang amid marble frescoes high above, the band is still heard outside in the blazing courtyard. And while the villagers push...