Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salsberg said the tower will be constructed with "Harvard-styled old brick," concrete, and glass. "It should integrate well with both the old and new dormitories at Harvard," he added...
...Reunite? In Moscow, the leaders of nine Communist nations* gathered for a secret summit and a show of Soviet spaceshots. Not long ago, such a gathering would inevitably result in barbed blasts at the West accompanied by the rattle of rockets or the slap of brick on mortar. Not so last week. In their bland communiqué, there was not one howl at the "imperialists," not one threat of "burial." Indeed, the haste with which the meeting was called implied a response to Washington initiatives rather than a new move by Moscow. What the Reds talked about remained a mystery...
Undermined by water pouring down its slopes, the great mass had split, and a 40-ft. tide of thick goo suddenly rolled like molten lava toward a cluster of homes-and toward the red-brick Pantglas Junior and Infants School, where some 250 youngsters between seven and eleven were just sitting down to class. Across the street, Mrs. Pearl Crowe heard the rumble and looked out of her window. "I saw a black mass of moving waste pouring steadily into the school, and part of the school collapsed. I was paralyzed." Ten-year-old Dilys Pope...
...then we skimmed the ground with the camera, just leaving the grass out of the picture, and then we got a horse just to roll over. It was a trick horse that loved to roll. So all it was doing was rolling over a 9-inch bit of brick wall, that's all. The rest, when the girl was thrown into the air, was slow motion. We sat her on the arm of the crane and swung her through the air in an arc, in slow motion...
Ugly Sound. President Johnson last week sounded a similar warning. "We have entered a new phase," he told visiting bishops from the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has an all-Negro membership of 1,300,000. "What if the cry for freedom becomes a sound of a brick cracking through a store window, turning over an automobile in the street or the sound of the mob? If that sound should drown out the voices of reason, frustration will replace progress and all of our best work will be undone...