Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faithful to "blow your mind" with the new sound. Hairy hippies all, they go by such fanciful names as the Moby Grape, the Grateful Dead, the Allnight Apothecary, the Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and the Fish, the Loading Zone, and the Yellow Brick Road...
...member of an unfraternal mob proceeded to hurl a brick through it, as others in the surging crowd had at a score of shops along Blue Hill Avenue in Boston's Roxbury Negro district during three straight nights of riots and looting. After three tense summers in which it had escaped the disturbances that plagued many other major U.S. cities, Boston finally succumbed to ghetto dementia...
...that occasion were doubly humiliating. The freshmen soon lost their way, and wandered vainly down dark side-streets, wondering how any girl could ever be worth so long a trip. Their ranks thinned, and their enthusiasm diminished at every turn--until finally in desperation they arrived at a large brick building that had all the trappings of a women's dormitory: gardens, flower-potted windows, matching curtains...
...York Times, she declared that the way to cope with the Mideast crisis was "not by futile fiddling in the U.N. but by straightforward independent action, the only kind that can be effective." The kind, she might have added-but did not-that has earned the Administration brick bats when it comes to Viet Nam. Tuchman concluded with what sounded remarkably like a Middle Eastern version of the "domino theory" that is so derisively scorned by Administration critics when applied to Asia. "Aqaba is the test from which the Arab nations, and behind them all the nations of Asia...
...prayer services even in the midst of the battle. The war over, Cosby borrowed money from friends to buy a dilapidated Washington rooming house that was the Church of the Saviour's first quarters; since 1950, the church's worship center has been a stately red brick Victorian mansion on Massachusetts Avenue...