Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate here in the Congress is over whether we slowly strangle Saddam with sanctions or immediately pursue a military solution," he insisted. "The choice is really over tactics." Robert Michel, the House G.O.P. leader, countered that those seeking to rein in the President's war power were creating a "brass choir of indecision, doubt and confusion...
...comes -- in this age, the Pentagon, chiefly -- are as before swept up in a riptide of dread, a mixture of the pall of death and the exhilaration of using the awesome machine they have designed. The Pentagon last week worked around the clock, its corridors filled with wary brass and eager arms merchants...
...likelihood of combat has risen in the Persian Gulf, where battlefield conditions and terrain would make military assistance a necessity for reporters, distrust between the brass and the press has blazed anew. Despite repeated contacts with news executives who believe they made their concerns clear, the Pentagon has expanded its proposed ground rules for the behavior of journalists on any gulf battlefield from one page to six. Even after a promise of revision following a heated session with about 60 senior Washington journalists late last week, the Pentagon seems firm in its intention: to impose unprecedented restrictions on where reporters...
...told Lech Walesa. Poland's ruddy- cheeked hero of peasant origins rode to his nation's highest office last week by a 3-to-1 popular vote. For supporters, the former electrician's victory was -- well, electrifying. As they greeted the President-elect in Gdansk with sparklers and brass bands, Walesa took time to remind Poles of what heroic struggles can accomplish. Declared the country's first postcommunist choice as head of state: "Since we defeated the system without one gunshot or one drop of blood, we can dare to build a new system...
...also isn't known for her knowledge of university brass. At Saturday's meet, she collected admission before her event. One man told her that five dollars was a lot of money for a track meet...