Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Item, Dialogue: Make this up-to-the-minute and, preferably, "snappy" (oh, give the English woman some jokes about tea, the Italian a couple of gags about the construction business, although you should generally avoid the line "You're built like a brick," which has been overused, and give both of them as many filthy phrases as you can get away with...
...evening ended with a brilliant ball at the red brick British embassy, where the most select 600 mingled in marble halls, danced past the gold pillars of the grand ballroom, relaxed at candlelit tables on flagstone terraces. One terrace was covered by a white silk tent trimmed in gold, ashimmer with garlands of tiny lights-all designed for the 1957 visit of Queen Elizabeth...
Sallal found it easy to switch his conspiracy from father to son. The new Imam had ruled for scarcely eight days when, one night last week, he found himself a prisoner in his own mud-brick palace in the capital city of San'a. The Imam tried to shoot his way out but Sallal blasted the palace with artillery, and luckless Badr died in the ruins. At midnight, Radio San'a announced the fall of the monarchy and "the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic...
...torrent. The dust-dry beds of the rivers on either side of Barcelona carried floods 75 ft. wide. Debris piled up against bridges and then the bridges plunged downstream. A 6-ft. wall of water smashed into the crowded industrial suburbs and carried all before it: hundreds of rubble-brick houses, telephone poles, autos. horses and wagons, people. Sixteen gypsies encamped under a bridge were swept clean away...
Paul Gulhard, a correspondent for Agence France Presse and for the London Daily Sketch, was shot and killed as brick-throwing students twice charged federal marshals controlling the campus, the Associated Press reported early today...