Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three U.S. naval ships last week pulled into the northern Chinese port of Qingdao as a 21-gun salute fired and a 27-piece brass band played Happy Days Are Here Again. The vessels were in China for a six-day stopover, the first such visit by American military ships to the People's Republic since the Communist takeover in 1949. The port call had been delayed by more than a year, following Peking's unexpected statement that no nuclear-armed vessels would be permitted to dock. But the Chinese apparently had second thoughts after reports began to circulate last...
...would they do this for us?" wondered Gerhardt Clauss, 61, a former German infantryman who was seeing the tiny north-woods town of Stark, N.H., for the first time since 1946. Clauss, now a prosperous businessman in north Germany, shook his head, surprised by the brass band, the drill team and bagpiper, the signs announcing GERMAN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP DAY. On the other hand, why had Clauss, four other former prisoners and an assortment of wives, friends and children come all the way to Stark...
...With a brass quintet playing, approximately 800 guests marked the tribute to the Sullivans in a three-hour ceremony, says David F. Noonan, executive assistant to the Mayor...
Listeners dressed in semi-formal attire filled the 500 available seats and many more stood to hear Runcie's words. A crimson and white colorscheme pervaded decorations at the reception,which took place from 4 to 6 p.m. A brass ensembleperformed before and after the speakers, who alsoincluded Dr. Derek Brewer, Master of EmmanuelCollege (John Harvard's alma mater) and theUniversity of Cambridge; Archibald Cox '34, CarlM. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and a formerWatergate prosecutor; and Stephen Sandy, facultymember at Bennington College...
...thing about Americans is that if you show them how to do a dance, they'll get up and do it," says Milly Quezada, one of the lead singers in Los Vecinos. "But a lot of them think merengue is too loud and too fast. Once we soften the brass a little, add synthesizers and make the music more American, we'll get them." All right, America: hips together...