Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gunman, one a thief, one an incorrigible delinquent. All of them had made several escapes from Missouri's ill-famed Training School for Boys at Boonville and been recaptured. But they were not tough enough to take the n agging boredom of the bleak, brick-tiled isolation cell. Irritable and depressed, they yammered at each other...
...London, Abdullah denied that his father was dead, cryptically added: "Conditions are unsettled and it's understandable that some extravagant reports might come from Yemen." At week's end, the secret of Yahya's mortal status and worldly successor was still hidden behind the mud-brick walls of his capital...
...outskirts of Princeton, N.J. stands a colonial-style red brick building which houses the most exclusive academy in the world. Its members are not there to teach anybody anything; they go there to live in peace and do their own work...
Last week, the Constitution moved, lock, stock & stuffed duck from its cluttered, turreted brick building to a new, $1,500,000, streamlined, aluminum-trimmed plant. The new building was, roughly, Georgia-shaped. To prepare the staff for the shock of a clean newsroom with wastebaskets and ash trays, a quiet memo was issued: "We are going to have the desks dusted every night...
Radcliffe President W. K. Jordan and three queens of spades seized shovels firmly yesterday morning, delved up four clods of Quadrangle turf, and started a chain reaction which will end sometime in 1949 when the last brick of Moors Hall, seventh Annex dormitory is mortared...