Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago a new House reared its proud white tower to the Cambridge sky. An architect would have called the House finished. The last red brick has been firmly laid in its mortary bed, the final touch of cream-colored paint has been added to the topmost dormer frame. yes, after fifteen months of feverish work Lowell House was undeniably finished...
...many Quaker committees as her husband, was a sympathetic, adored but firm mother. "I love you, my children," she declared, "but I do not love your faults." Her children were passionate rivals for her affection and approval. Discouraging emotionalism, she told them she would rather hold a brick than a hand. Her maternal compliment on personal appearance was high praise: "Thee will pass in a crowd...
Guerrillas. A phrase heard often in China, where things are always breaking down, is: "hsiang fa tze"-"let's cook up a scheme." By January 1938, Shanghai's industry-which was about 70% of China's-had been turned into acres of scrap steel and broken brick. Unless some scheme could be cooked up to replace this wrecked beehive, China's economy would have very little sting left...
...drab backwash of the '80s in downtown Minneapolis one day last week went erect, seamy-faced Mayor George E. Leach. At the corner of Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, clangorous with streetcar traffic, he stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...
After the brick-busting, the old West passed into the hands of a firm which has made more buildings disappear than all the raiding bombers of modern warfare: the sprawling Cleveland Wrecking...