Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these thumping accomplishments Rogers Hornsby, greatest right-handed hitter the game has ever known, was last week elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. In a little red-brick shrine at Cooperstown, N.Y., his square-jawed face, in bas-relief on a bronze plaque, will be hung alongside those of 26 other Immortals previously chosen...
...time for diplomatic honey. Said he: "I'm not here on a good-will mission." From the modest red-brick headquarters of his China Defense Supplies Inc. in Washington, he engineered many a deal, stepped on many a sensitive toe in the State and Treasury Departments...
...scientists' surprise, infected flies were found not only in insanitary places, but also in "a Government housing project consisting of modern, clean, thoroughly screened and hygienic homes." The community had "a special brick enclosure for the garbage cans, all of which were covered." In fact, Dr. Sabin noted, "there were so few flies about that it hardly seemed worthwhile to set out a trap...
...Thomsen slipped out of his embassy to deliver Germany's declaration to Secretary Hull. When the Secretary did come, Dr. Thomsen was told that he was "engaged." Finally Dr. Thomsen delivered his note to the Chief of the European Division, went glumly back to the ramshackle old red-brick Embassy...
...hear from his home office three or four times a year that he had done a good job, this outpouring came as a surprise. But Ed Murrow knew that the work of many other radio correspondents was being honored through him. And he had seen too much blood and brick dust to overvalue bouquets...