Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard. She rushed to San Diego to marry him, but his orders were changed unexpectedly, and he sailed a bachelor. Now, fingering the diamond solitaire on her third finger, Bette said: "We have our house all planned. It's to be sort of brick and stone Tudor, with four bedrooms and not too close to the neighbors." Lunch hours she spends window-shopping, filling her imaginary house with imaginary furniture and knickknacks...
...Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their playing. They were, in fact, a hardworking group of Philadelphia professionals, called the American Society of the Ancient Instruments, and last week they were giving their 17th annual festival in the University of Pennsylvania's little cream-brick Museum auditorium...
There was an out: the congregation could go into bankruptcy, default on the debt and start over. But they decided to pay. First, money was raised for a brick, dirt-floored, basement; it would be the foundation of a new church building, and could serve as a meeting place meanwhile. Then the congregation settled down to collecting the $50,000. It took 21 years-until Nov. 23, 1942. Pulpit-filling (236 Ibs.) Rev. J. H. Dotson promptly started a building fund, installed three small boxes near the door for contributions...
...plan worked well. Last week the first buff bricks of a new Mount Zion Baptist Church were laid. By June all the brick work will be finished, and the congregation will move from the basement into an auditorium seating 856. After that, bit by bit, still paying as they go, Mount Zion's members will complete their $150,000 building, a monument to patient perseverance-and a quietly Christian rebuke to racial intolerance...
...foreign trade. And until the State Department stopped giving examinations for the Foreign Service in September 1941 (it will start again after the war), there were several Washington cram schools which undertook to stuff candidates with the right answers. But until S.A.I.S. set up shop, in a remodeled brick office building on Washington's Florida Avenue, there was no U.S. school of postgraduate calibre which undertook: 1) to give prospective diplomats and foreign traders highly individualized, up-to-the-minute training for specific jobs abroad; 2) to help the diplomats and businessmen understand each other's problems...