Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another year, Nixon gave away elegant brass pens in gift boxes. Each pen had Nixon's signature engraved on the barrel. They were beautiful pens. But Tricky Dick was not above a small act of deception...
...ordinance passed Monday instructs Healy and four top-ranking police brass--Police Commissioner Perry L. Anderson Jr. Superintendent Walter L. Boyle and the department's two domestic-violence liaisons--to meet with University administrators "to insure that a similar situation does not occur again...
...inside the military special-operations community, the debate continued over whether the brass had been scared off too soon. Congressional staff members looking into the aborted mission two years ago learned that the CIA team had spent only two hours actually observing the camp, not two days as the agency first reported. The team leaders quickly snapped photographs from positions at least 500 yds. from the camp's perimeter, and most turned out to be blurry; they saw none of the prisoners believed to be housed in an inner compound before they were frightened away by barking guard dogs...
Nothing can get a crowd involved better than lengthy and numerous percussion cadences. Get those drums banging--after all, solo wind or brass sections often get lost in an open-air stadium...
...might not know it from the new store's employees, who were tight-lipped yesterday, except when they were sipping what was presumably a test batch of their product and referring all questions to their corporate office in Seattle. But the top brass will tell you that atmosphere and coffee quality are everything and that the new Starbucks will be the place to drink...