Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impoverished northern backwater of Amethi, where Prime Minister Gandhi was pitted against Maneka Gandhi, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay, sleepy villages came alive with Rajiv buttons, Rajiv banners, Rajiv posters and Rajiv hats. YOU LOOK AFTER THE COUNTRY, RAJIV, advised a sign on a mud- brick wall. WE'LL LOOK AFTER AMETHI...
...helicopter hovered overhead, dozens of policemen set up barricades, blocking the approaches to the yellow brick courthouse on Piekarska Street in the provincial city of Torun, 100 miles northwest of Warsaw. The strict security precautions seemed grimly ironic, considering the fact that the four men who were brought to trial in handcuffs last week were, like the policemen outside, employees of the Ministry of the Interior. The four, all secret policemen, are charged in the plot to abduct and murder Father Jerzy Popieluszko, 37, a Roman Catholic priest who was an outspoken supporter of the banned Solidarity trade union...
Some say it should be plowed into good works, including a few improvements at the 80-year-old red brick church. Thriftier souls say the money should be placed in a trust. A flood of more than 500 supplicants, seeking everything from rent money to a new roof, has compounded the problem. Nor is the situation improving. A second well, adjacent to the first, started spouting oil, doubling the church's monthly income. So far, more than $100,000 has been banked locally, and the money could easily flow to the church for the next 20 to 30 years...
Chicago loses 20 to 30 vacant buildings a month to brick burglars, St. Louis perhaps 50 a year. "We don't use terms like brick stealing," says Philip Mumford, owner of Chicago-based Colonial Brick Co. Inc., which pays about $80 for 1,000 used bricks. "If a rabbit dies and a buzzard eats the carcass, that's scavenging. In the city, when a building dies, there's a process of claiming that carcass...
...stretches back for decades. The N.N.P. won 14 of the 15 seats in Grenada's new House of Representatives. A day later, Blaize, who sported a new gray fedora on the way to the ceremony, was sworn in as Prime Minister at York House, Grenada's yellow brick, Georgian-style government building. He then thanked voters for "showing in such a massive way that they are willing to take command of their own affairs...