Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcing that he was born in jail. He came close to it. His father was the county jailer in Louisa, Ky., a tiny town in the Big Sandy Valley just across the river from West Virginia. When Fred was born in 1890, the Vinsons lived in a red brick, tree-shaded house with the jail in the rear. There was a sign outside which to a casual observer might have applied to home and cellblock alike: "$10 fine for talking to prisoners...
...cool Northwest evening, Harry Truman could see the dark green of fir forests, the snowy, glacier-scarred bulk of Mount Rainier. When the plane landed at McChord Field, his old Senate friend, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren, was waiting. Together they drove to the lawn-bordered red brick governor's mansion at Olympia. Then, for five days, Harry Truman forgot the cares of office...
...Germans worked. In a matter of weeks, cities that had been deathly ruins on a semblance of life and order. ds of rubble became neat piles of brick and stone; bombed houses, patched withscraps from neighboring heaps, became habitable hutches. Here & there, in factories untouched or merely scarred by the bombings, some of the 70,000,000 Went back to making things. The conquerors, witnessing and sometimes assisting this early revival, realized that Germany was by no means a complete ruin (see above...
...Communists are selling us a gold brick when they try to make us think that they must maintain their army...
Ezra Pound, brick-bearded expatriot facing a U.S. treason charge for broadcasting Fascist propaganda from Italy, debated what poetic justice should be in his case, finally concluded: "Well, if I ain't worth more alive than dead, that's that. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinion, either his opinions are no good or he's no good...