Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smith, a photo-supply manager, recalls how he once lived overlooking a brick alley near Chicago's downtown Loop. That was before the alley was stolen. "Every three nights or so, somebody would take about 50 bricks," says Smith. "It stopped only when the city paved it over." Each day bricks from abandoned buildings and old alleys in Midwestern cities are pilfered, sold and shipped out of town on boxcars. Ultimately they end up in Sunbelt states, where there is great demand for used brick. "They're advertising homes built with Chicago brick," says John Dean, of Chicago...
Another story tourists hear is that no structural changes, even removing a brick, man be made on Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, because of a stipulation in the donation. But they do not hear the time-honored--but untrue--story that Widener's mother, who donated the building, insisted that all students take a swim test before graduation because her so drowned aboard the Titanic. Sanks contend that the swim test was introduced with the building of the river Houses...
...that pursuit of truth indeed leads to justice is one of the foundations of Western civilization, however often ignored or given only lip service. Is it necessary to repeat former South African Prime Minister Verster's statement that "each trade agreement, each bank loan, each new investment is another brick in the wall of our continued existence?" Or Tutu's "Either you are for or against apartheid, and not by rhetoric...
...From the air," reported TIME'S Andrea Dabrowski, the only journalist on the mission, "the ravaged area looks like a surrealistic patchwork, with a few brick and adobe houses still standing defiantly erect alongside the skeletons of completely scorched buildings. Down on the deserted streets, a choking gray dust now covers everything. A stray dog searches for its owner and snaps at anyone who tries to peer through what was once a window. The destruction seems haphazard. A completely undamaged kitchen with a green refrigerator opens into the hulk of a demolished bedroom. Fragments of lives are scattered everywhere...
...when he condoned violence on the picket line. "I am not prepared to condemn the actions of my members whose only crime is fighting for the right to work," said Scargill. At the same meeting, the Trades Union Congress's new general secretary, Norman Willis, bravely decried "the brick, the bolt or the petrol bomb" as weapons detrimental to the miners' cause. He was jeered with savage shouts...