Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, New York Timesman Arthur Krock selected this picture of Korean administration at the turn of the century as an appropriate brick to throw (by way of parable) at Washington's bureaucracy. Last week the lack of connection between U.S. "help discuss" and "help decide" mandarins was painfully apparent in Korea...
...married a curly-haired English girl, installed her in a red brick villa on Guildford's Weyside Road, led her to think he was still in service and had a snap desk job. To make it look real, he left home every day at 8:30 a.m., returned at 4:30 p.m. He regularly promoted himself-to corporal, to sergeant, to sergeant major...
...among the teeming tenements of Manhattan's Lower East Side, by an earnest young Harvardman, Father James Otis Sergent Huntington. Gifts from inter ested Episcopalians and fees for preaching have kept it alive. Since 1904 the Order's mother house has been the handsome, red brick, well-landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...
Newspapers & Frogs. Before classes began, the G.I.s sipped Cokes in the PX bar or sprawled with their books on the well-trimmed lawns bordering the former parade ground. In the afternoon they enthusiastically piled into converted class rooms and laboratories in the camp's red brick buildings, launched into their choices of 300 courses. Liberal arts and commerce curriculums attracted more than half, with science, fine arts, agriculture, engineering, journalism and education trailing in that order...