Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brass of the Navy picked her as an ideal boat for the President, and because a bunch of Missouri Democrats couldn't take it, don't blame it on the ship. (Seventeen big ships hove to in the North Atlantic that week.) Any sailor knows that a ship has to roll or drown in her own smother...
...Privateer could have been 350 miles off course in the Baltic, even under the worst of weather conditions-but if she was well offshore she had a perfect right to be flying there. Knowing that all long-distance patrol planes are equipped with reconnaissance radar, Navy brass in the Pentagon were certain that she had not disobeyed standing orders to stay well clear of Russian and Russian satellite territory. And she couldn't have opened fire on a seagull because there were no guns aboard except the pilot's personal .45 automatic. The next logical question...
...fast first movement, Mennin led the strings and woodwinds over hill & dale on a merry chase, with the brass barking right along with them. The softly-bowed melodic slow movement gave everyone, including the listeners, a few moments of reflective rest. Then, in a galloping finale, the whole orchestra took up the chase again...
...combining two accordions, a banjo, bass fiddle and piano with two solovoxes, he made music that sounded good to a lot of people who would not have listened twice to old-style polka bands with their hard-blowing brass and woodwinds and their um-pa-pa .beat. Frankie also managed to please polka experts. In 1948, when his polka version of the hillbilly ballad Just Because became a national bestseller (more than 1,000,000 records), Frankie's popularity began spreading outside his old beat...
...early 20s, Nelson started packaging a pinch of vrilium inside an ordinary two-inch-long brass cylinder. Popularly called "The Magic Spike," the cartridge was sold to people suffering from a variety of painful diseases. Nelson was always happy to explain how it worked: when the cylinder was attached to the lapel (or hung around the neck), there were "emanations" into the atmosphere for a distance of 20 feet, discouraging all sorts of disease germs. Meanwhile, the vrilium was supposed to "emanate" inward, restoring the buyer's sick body cells to normal...