Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these plans are carried out, the brick dormitories will not accommodate as many students as they now do, Mrs. Deane A. Lord, director of the Radcliffe News Office, said that any overflow from the brick dormitories would be put in the brick apartment building at 124 Walker...
...Life of the Long-Distance Runner who All in Good Time found a Taste of Honey in an L-Shaped Room at the Top on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. More than familiar to U.S. film and playgoers nowadays is middleclass, industrial England: the rows on rows of red brick prison houses, the suffocating parochialism, the intellectual sterility, the emotional desiccation, the measuring out of life in tepid teacups, the apotheosis of fornication as the only salvation. The milieu has become predictable and precariously close to a bore. One knows not only what one will meet in such a house...
...that Smith is hurting. His take from My Fair Lady alone reached $65,000, with royalties still acoming. And in any case, he has managed to move out of the old artists' commune to a bachelor pad of his own a few blocks away. It is a yellow brick Federal house, with a staff of three for the dishes and furnace. It also has 16 rooms and 16 fireplaces and, consequently, more Oliver Smith sets than even David Merrick could afford...
...both swains make idiots of themselves for five minutes. "If I knock my head against a wall would that prove that I love you?" pleads Belmondo in baffled desperation. "Perhaps," muses Anna. So he jumps up, zooms out of the cafe and across the street, head first into a brick building. She's unmoved...
...electorate of Bechuanaland proceeded to the polls. Some were red-faced Afrikaner farmers in sports shirts and veldskoen; others were naked Kalahari bushmen, whose ways have not changed since they learned to paint on rocks 15,000 years ago. At the polling place-in some cases a tidy brick schoolhouse, in others a thatch-roofed hut beneath a twisted mopane tree-each voter received a handful of col ored, coin-size counters representing the candidates of five political parties. Cynics called it "the tiddlywinks poll," but when all the cardboard disks were counted last week, Bechuanaland had wisely and overwhelmingly...