Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week a slender, dark girl saw with her own eyes that Persia had powerful friends in the U.S. Several hundred people thronged the elegant, red brick Persian Embassy to shake hands with Her Imperial Highness Ashraf Pahlevi, twin sister of Persia's ruling Shah. President Truman received her in the White House, and Bess Truman was there too. This week the State Department scheduled a big, brilliant reception...
...hospital-to-hero episode began about seven years ago when Norris, never much of an athlete, plummeted from a 30-foot chimney scaffold on to a brick carrier's hod, injuring his left heel. Repeated attempts to heal it disclosed a dislocated...
...rambling, red-brick Victorian house with a rambling garden, he opened his famed progressive Summerhill School for boys & girls, where 70 sons & daughters of middle-class parents enjoy its unusual atmosphere. "The art of teaching," Neill decided, "is the art of leaving children alone." Summerhill is Britain's most progressive school. At his school ("That dreadful School," he likes to call it), there is no discipline, except for such rules as the children lay down in their weekly meetings. The children are permitted to swear, steal, smash things up, masturbate, lie, play hookey or do anything else that...
What Dr. Evans got his teeth into was a church with a membership of 2,378, a conventional "high-school-Gothic," red brick building and a debt of $250,000. He wiped out the debt within the first year. Each year since then, on all his calls for money, his flock has answered by topping the figure. All told, his church members* gave $328,000 last year, more than was given by any other Presbyterian congregation in the U.S. Hollywood First Presbyterian claims two other records: more new members during the past five years, the largest Sunday School enrollment...
...first day, about 5,000 people stomped in off the blaring midway for a look, munching hot dogs and sipping soda pop. The farmers and their families did a double-quick shuffle around the big brick Exposition Building's art wing, and then moved on, with something like relief, to the more familiar exhibits. Said one dejected official: "These people come to see the latest harvesting machines, threshers and milking equipment, but what they want in art is what they saw in grandmother...