Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife-secretary): "Handle the strikers with an iron hand." In reply, Norman Washington Manley, leftist leader of the defiant T.U.C., called strikes among prison guards, firemen and railroad workers. Armed mobs of rival unionists prowled the streets. Three men were killed. Bustamante was hit on the head by a brick...
...Joseph R. Sizoo did not want a new church. Sizzled Sizoo: "It is putting thq dollar sign before the cross! I'm not defending brick and mortar. The issue is not, shall St. Nicholas Church be moved - but rather: shall religion retreat!" Dr. Sizoo called his parishioners to a "day of prayer for intercession," took to the air to denounce "the rising tides of secularism." He charged that part of the consistory (33 ministers, deacons and elders) had succumbed to "the lure of material things." "I am reminded," he added, "of what a distinguished Boston judge said when...
...Spokane's Brown-Johnston Co. (electrical supplies), Columbia Electric and Mfg. Co., and Washington Brick and Lime...
Light buildings were houses of cards for the heat and blast; they were burned up or swept away. Most factories collapsed completely. At Nagasaki, the heavy-brick Roman Catholic Church fell into rubble...
...members of the mission, with growing uneasiness, were privately applying their knowledge to U.S. cities, to see how they would withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan's stockiest skyscrapers might stand up, but many of their light "curtain walls" would be swept away, leaving only skeleton steel. In downtown New York, a single up-to-date bomb might kill a million people. Some might live for a while, eventually die by inches. Few U.S. buildings could...