Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from an open car, cameramen standing smoking in a truck, a score of shiny 1941 model cars stuffed with aides, newsmen and political small fry. Near the railroad tracks, a half-dozen blocks from the town centre, Willkie got his first real baptism by booing: a three-story red-brick General Motors assembly plant sprouted workers at every window, and up went the boos, loud, clear, mocking in the fresh Indian summer...
...college started out with quarters in ordinary houses, as explained by the tablets on the 1859 Gate and just inside the Porcellian Gate, and indicated by brick gammidae in the pavement south of Wadsworth House. Wadsworth House was built in the eighteenth century, but the presence of that old house is a reminiscence of the character of this part of Cambridge in its earliest days. The town stretched casually down the pleasant southerly slope toward the river, being divided into many individual plots. The primitive buildings have vanished, but the subdivision into numerous small plots, and the casual arrangement, still...
Grover Jones was a round, ruddy, bespectacled little man with a rim of reddish hair around his shiny bald head. Pounding up & down a room, swinging a long cigar through the air, he could tell the tallest tale in Hollywood. Inside the brick wall circling his two-acre property he kept a pony, a goat, 14 English sheep dogs, ducks, geese, chickens, ravens, down-&-out friends and relations, his father, his mother, his wife Sue. His profession was screenwriting, for which he received as much as $3,500 a week, $40,000 a script. He reached Hollywood from West Terre...
...explosions died away, rescuers began arriving. While fires spread, they got out the living, some of the dead, dug through hot brick and rubble looking for more. Ten bodies were found in the woods 300 feet from the nearest building. The last flames were finally doused with chemicals. Damage: more than $1,000,000. Injured: 200. Dead: 27. Missing: 25. Three days later the count stood 43 dead, four still missing...
...Fifth Avenue, sat under the trees on his lawn and strolled around Rushville like a native. Willkie demurred when police (including two courtesy plain-clothes men sent by New York City's police commissioner) insisted on fencing off the sidewalk in front of his rented red brick house, for every day several hundred neighbors, farmers and motorists from neighboring States stop and wait politely before the house and several times a day Willkie comes out, gives them a cheerful wave of the hand and few good-natured words. But despite this leisurely small-town existence, as his loyal wife...