Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate with a strong civil rights record, Smith's greatest potential strength lay in the predominantly Negro areas such as Gerttown. Gerttown is one of the city's pocket ghettos--rows of low level shabby brick buildings squashed together inside a wall of light industry. But even in these wards Smith was defeated by a Catholic candidate whose campaign tactics were to approach the local priest with a certain sum of money. New Orleans is ninety per cent Catholic. "I tried to speak to the priests but they wouldn't see me. They had obviously been told not to have...
Trottenberg said that the planners have considered replacing the planned brick sidewalks around Mather House with poured cement sidewalks, as a money-saving change. He suggested that revision would be along similar lines...
...programs, involving themselves in the agony of the ghetto to the same degree and with the same embarrassed caution that delicate ladies use when they dip their toes into the edges of cold or unfamiliar waters. Denying its historic role of protest, the University of Harvard stands comfortably in brick and ivy on the safe side of the Charles River, enjoying the passage of another football season, and talking politely at congenial cocktail parties about the unfortunate problems of the unfortunate children of the ghetto...
...before the anger of the Negro community, that I lodge this charge of moral failure and ethical cowardice at those who dictate policy for the University, above all the President and Deans. We have yet to discover how our nation's outstanding place of learning can sit back in brick oblivion and course-book apathy and watch America's Number One Norern Segregationist chart her way to power not seven minutes distant, not five miles off. In this Harvard shows itself no different perhaps than the society of which it is a product. No more and no less than...
...Headquarters of the spiritual empire is the Maharishi's academy on a shaded, 15-acre site overlooking the sacred Ganges River at Rishikesh, 130 miles north of New Delhi. When the guru, a bachelor, is not proselytizing about the globe, he resides at Rishikesh in a simple, red brick bungalow, where he often meditates for 20 or 30 days at a stretch. His bedroom is air-conditioned...