Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week, the presidential desk was clear and the crew had polished up the brass on the good yacht Williamsburg. Harry Truman packed up his white wool yachting cap and a covey of his best speechwriters and set out for a lazy eight-day session of waterborne poker, napping and perhaps some occasional phrasemaking in preparation for the political lists. It was to be a comfortable trip. The Williamsburg wasn't going any place in particular-just cruising along Chesapeake...
...five-starred Chevrolet sedan, trailed by four other staff cars, 40 jeep-loads of newsmen and lesser brass, MacArthur rolled over the dusty road to Seoul. Along the capital's Mapo Boulevard, where the rubble of siege and street fighting had been hastily swept up, the general took the salute of South Korean troopers, the polite applause of white-garbed civilians...
Creswell is a grimy Derbyshire coal-mining town, but the folk of nearby villages called it "happy Creswell." It boasts a model village housing development, a crack shooting team, a brass band famed for miles around. Its mine, reputed to be one of Britain's safest, is equipped with up-to-date conveyor and ventilation systems. Output per man-shift is two tons, nearly double the national average...
...first week-and- half grads were walking up the modern, aluminum, brass-rail-less bar to whether beer was being yet. The arrival of a liquor license may provide of the strongest unifying in the center's social life...
...Allen & Shannon whirl through their chore by rote, they also pause long enough to give out a good many brass rings. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft gets a grudging tribute but a high one: "He never ducks an issue." Illinois' Paul Douglas is described as "outstandingly the ablest man in the Senate ... for solid intellectual force...