Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tobe's business, which he likes to describe as "the removal of electrical garbage" (noise suppressers to the layman) was never able to support drinking fountains in its old red-brick factory until war came along. Now it's terrific—and a prime example of how a little businessman with unbridled enthusiasm and pixie screwball-ishness can capitalize 14 years of struggle and adversity to make himself invaluable to the war effort...
Inside a modest brick house at 2374 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D.C., is a lot of very useful military information-but no U.S. military man knows much about it. On the walls inside hang military maps, showing in detail the dispositions of Japanese troops in China and all southeastern Asia. On chairs inside sit several men whose heads are crammed with information about the Japanese Army, how it operates and how it fights...
Quiet, diffident Harold Smith still likes to work with his hands; he plays handyman around his brick Colonial house in Virginia, turns out smooth walnut furniture on a power lathe in the basement. His tall, robust wife, who shoots near-championship golf, thinks his mathematics is only good in big figures, never permits him to meddle with the household accounts...
...Squat red-brick building next door to the Hygienic Department on Holyoke Street, University scientists are working on what may one day be one of Harvard's important contributions to society, the analysis of the "normal" person...
...long ago Congressman Engel arose in the House, piled brick upon brick of accusation against Felix William Zelcer, onetime vice president of Seversky Aircraft Corp., before that proprietor of the White Horse Tavern in Manhattan; and the suave Miranda Bros.-Alfred Joseph Jr., and Ignacio Joseph. Congressman Engel's story...