Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven predecessors as White House brides took husbands who were mature, professionally established, wealthy, patrician, or all four.* By contrast, Pat, 23, has a modest background and an uncharted future. His parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, have lived for 25 years in a small orange bungalow with fake-brick siding in a blue-collar Waukegan neighborhood. Gerard Nugent, district sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar and prep schools and then to Jesuit Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he graduated...
...crashes. "If you have your seat belt fastened and drive into a stone wall at 15 m.p.h.," says O'Donnell, "the car will be a mess but there won't be much damage to you. If you do that on a motorcycle, you get thrown against the brick wall, which is ruinous to flesh and bone." Since the rider is usually projected headfirst, like a missile, says Manhattan's Dr. Robert H. Kennedy, the most severe and common injuries, those that cause 70% of the deaths, are to the head. A properly designed helmet is essential...
Nature's relief, the cool jet stream from Canada, was pushed out of its normal path by a unique high-pressure system, as impenetrable as a brick wall eight miles high. The barrier actually comprised three immense, tightly interlocked, high-pressure cells without precedent in more than a decade. At week's end one of the highs, out in the Pacific, shifted a bit, and a welcome Arctic draft sneaked through the wall to break-at least temporarily-the dog days of July. August was yet to come...
Allston Burr Lecture Hall, the modern, grey-brick edifice on Prescott Street, is suffering from the heat. The South face of the lecture hall has sustained two major expansion cracks caused by materials which contract during the winter and expand during the summer...
...representative of the construction company repairing the building attributed the cracks to the choice of materials. "This glazed brick is fine in Florida or California, but its crazy to use it in this climate," he said. The red bricks can "breathe," he explained, and improve with age. "I wouldn't be at all surprised if the trouble went on indefinitely," he continued. Glazed bricks, he added, cost 35 cents; about four times as much as red bricks...