Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hail & Prayers. The funnel moved on, gathering about it an awesome shroud of torrential rain and hail. In Higgins, 15 miles away, only three brick buildings survived undamaged. Flames licked the wreckage. Of the town's 1,250 inhabitants, 45 were dead...
...that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does. ... I doubt whether even our public edifices-our capitols, statehouses, courthouses, city-hall and churches-ought to be built of such permanent materials as stone or brick. It were better that they should crumble to ruin once in twenty years . . . as a hint to the people to ... reform the institutions which they symbolize...
...Saturday morning, T.V. strode into the grey brick Legislative Yuan building. None of the waiting rank & file knew what was impending. T.V. took a seat facing them, in the center of a long curved table. He was hatless, but in the chilly hall he wore his overcoat and kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything...
...Connor plant, a low, white brick-fronted building, simply disintegrated. Its roof rose into the air and flew apart, its framework splintered, its walls bulged and burst in one enormous moment of concussion and incandescence. The walls and roofs of nearby buildings were smashed; automobiles caved in on the streets...
Medellin is the Chicago of this Colombian frontier. Like last-century Chicago, it is all vulgarity and bustle. In violent juxtaposition, there is every conceivable type of architecture, from a smattering of colonial through 19th Century brick churches to curvaceous, glass-walled, ten-story skyscrapers-most of it in muscular bad taste. But the most characteristic structure in Medellin is a half-finished factory. Some 250 large factories already function in Medellin and the adjacent towns of Itagui, Bello, Envigado and Copacabana, but industrialization goes on. The municipal power system provides the cheapest electricity in South America, and is stepping...