Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macon, Ga., the Burns Brick Co. uses two robots to handle 8,000 bricks an hour, a work load ordinarily requiring seven men; each of the robots plucks eight bricks at a time off a table, then drops them gently onto cars carrying them to kilns for baking. General Motors employs a robot to move heated steering linkage rods into forging dies. Ford uses one to paint engines, while robots at Corning Glass Works pick up dinnerware after it has been decorated and put it onto a conveyor belt...
Students looking for change at Harvard this year have focused their attention on red brick Massachusetts Hall, Harvard's oldest building, housing President Pusey's office, or on gray University Hall, where the Dean of the College and the Dean of Students have their offices. There is little to show...
...restaurants and sunny sidewalk cafes-lies a ring of small communities with names like Aubervilliers and St. Ouen, Boulogne-Billancourt and St. Denis. No soaring monuments to Western civilization grace their drab and grimy streets. Instead, the stigmata of the worst of the 20th century abound: the sprawl of brick factories, the grey, faceless slabs of low-income housing projects. All day big diesel trucks thunder up and down belching fumes, their oversize tires slapping the ancient cobblestones. This is the Red Belt of Paris, so called because most of its towns have Communist mayors. It is here that...
...Library, hooligans shattered windows in the office of President Kirk, who finally gave the order for police to clear the campus. When a brick slammed into the face of a patrolman, 1,000 outraged police charged through the crowd, swinging night sticks and chasing students up the stairs of their dormitories. By the time an uneasy peace was restored, 68 people-including 17 policemen-had been injured, and 177 persons were under arrest...
Though he refrained from open charges, Vellucci hinted at possible recipients of the stolen goods: "I've seen a lot of nice brick patios in the Harvard community lately...