Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assured, a place at the tables where United Nations high strategy is made. He presented his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt, met the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King. He set up headquarters in a modest brick house on Embassy Row, covered its walls with maps, got ready to proffer his precious information on the war in the East...
...were trampled. Joyce Spector was knocked under a table, crawled on hands & knees, somehow was pushed through an open doorway into the street. A chorus boy herded a dozen people downstairs into a refrigerator. A few men & women crawled out windows; a few escaped by knocking out a glass brick wall. But most of them, including Bridegroom John O'Neil, were trapped...
...Deal's political woes (TIME, Nov. 30), Jim Farley's sudden preoccupation with railroad timetables added a ton of new weight. No other Democrat understood so well the hard, patient job of building political fences, brick by brick, name by name, promise by promise. In 1932 and again in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt had learned what it meant to have a faithful Big Jim as advance agent. Now a determined Big Jim was advance agent for the other side...
Civilians are still allowed in the Indoor Athletic Building without special passes, but the brick edifice on Holyoke street is gradually going the way of all University facili8ties that can be used by the armed forces...
Meanwhile a rich uncle (Charles Coburn) has turned out to be a gold brick instead of a gold mine. A pestiferous dog saves the situation-at least for home-loving Wife Sheridan-by exhuming a letter from Washington to the Continental Army (modern value: $50,000). As a deadpan caretaker, Percy Kilbride gets the lion's share of the laughs. While the locusts ravish Mr. Benny, Kilbride drawls: "And three months ahead of schedule...