Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home contained allusions to the Ashley kidnaping. But at week's end, although Chyrel confessed to abducting the Ashley child, police had not yet charged her with murder, and North Buffalo parents were still not sure the streets were safe. ¶ Summoned to the neat red brick bungalow of Mrs. Delette Nycum, Charlotte, N.C., police were met at the door by 14-year-old Richard Nycum, who silently led them to his mother's bedroom. There they found the 39-year-old divorcee dead, her body blotched with 251 bruises. While they questioned Richard, Charlotte Millionaire George King...
...long been the practice of wealthy U.S. museums and collectors to buy historic European buildings, then transport them beam and brick across the Atlantic. Last week the process was somewhat reversed; in Great Britain an American museum was open near the Regency resort town of Bath. Its purpose: to show the British just how their cousins lived from the landing of the Mayflower to the beginning of the present century...
...father, Cesar. They are vast bladders of honor, mountains of wrath, vestfuls of selfesteem, and it is a great pleasure to watch them cheat each other at cards or craftily set a derby hat in the street and wait for a sucker to break his toe on the brick inside. Each plays the fool well, and each also accomplishes the difficult trick of playing the wise man-Chevalier when he tells his young wife of an old man's love, and Boyer when he explains to Marius that the child Marius fathered now belongs rightfully to Panisse...
...brick houses of Beacon Hill remain to remind us of the glory that once was Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
...meets a sawed-off apprentice thug who wants her to buy a brick or he will conk her with it. She has no money, but takes the brick and, in innocence, offers it for the thug to a hysterical old man. A cop comes, the thug runs, she is led off to the station. There she panics, locks herself into what turns out to be the station arsenal. But the chief of police is coming for an inspection, and the door must be opened. A convict safecracker is summoned, dressed in a cop's uniform. The chief praises...