Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time the Pentagon brass had tried to ease Rickover into retirement. But he has been able to beat back every attempt by marshaling the support of powerful friends in Washington. When he turned 64, the Navy exempted him from mandatory retirement, and since then Presidents have given him a series of two-year extensions on active duty...
Journalists don't change as quickly as the times, though, The content of the Phoenix mirrors the brass-and-hanging-plants lifestyle of the day, but there is a cynical edge to the writing. It is the cynicism left when one--for whatever reason--discards strongly held notions and replaces them with little else...
CLASSICAL: Empire Brass Quintet; music of Schumann, Etler, Telemann et al.; Morse Auditorium; Saturday...
Last week, at the Tokyo Motor Show, nine Japanese automakers demonstrated some of those new ideas amid fireworks and brass bands. Among the 1 million people in attendance the first day was a delegation of Detroit auto executives...
...Paramounts, The brass, The Rude Boys and Sky leland--the Channel...