Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtually complete by 1979. Explains a U.S. official: "American contractors have an incentive to finish as soon as possible. There are no similar incentives in the Soviet Union." The U.S. refuses to allow the Soviets to complete the interior of their new building and move from their old ornate brick embassy four blocks from the White House until Soviet crews finish the American facility in Moscow...
...moved to a one-bedroom apartment on the northern fringe of Greenwich Village. For Goetz, the tan brick building was an oasis amid what he saw as the tawdry turbulence of 14th Street, a thoroughfare of cut-rate clothing and furniture stores. He launched a one-man crusade to clean up the street, pestering city agencies to do something about the litter, the junkies and the homeless...
...October 14, 1970, an explosion ripped through the attic of a stately brick building on Divinity Ave. Activists protecting the war in Vietnam had planted a tomb in Henry A. Kissinger's former office at the Center for International Affairs, housed in the Harvard Semitic Museum...
Overlooking the Charles River and adjacent to the Kennedy School, the airy brick and glass development includes a luxury hotel, 36 condominiums, a seven story office building, and a spacious plaza of specialty shops...
...Parliament, South African Minister of Law and Order Louis LeGrange issued a special statement regretting "the most unfortunate incident." But he also defended the police action. The ill-fated procession had been led, he charged, by a man dressed in black and brandishing a brick, and the police had fired in self-defense only after they had been "surrounded and pelted with stones, sticks and other missiles, including petrol bombs." Eyewitnesses, however, maintained that the police had begun shooting without provocation and had summoned a fire engine to hose away the blood. President Botha appointed a judicial commission to investigate...