Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People think of the VA as that red brick building up on the hill, where Uncle Charlie died," says Richard Fuller, director of health-policy program development for the Paralyzed Veterans of America. "They don't realize that the VA is an integral part of the health-care network. With the VA budget being cut and Medicare and Medicaid being capped below existing growth rates, you have people going into health-care limbo...
Memorial Hall is yet another prime example of a breathtaking work of architecture, currently under major construction. While the sight of tractors and the piles of dirt and rock may taint the picturesque beauty of our red brick, autumn-colored setting, we nevertheless greatly appreciate the tireless efforts dedicated towards the proper upkeeping of our collegiate kingdom...
...similar scenario has hit the Harvard women's soccer team (5-1-0, 1-0-0 Ivy League). The Crimson had smothered its first five opponents by a 23-1 score until it hit a brick wall in a 1-0 loss to Monmouth Sunday in the Harvard Invitational...
...etched memoir is that after 40 years of thriving and surviving in New York City, Cantwell admits to no greater wisdom than she had when she first arrived. More comfortable as observer than confessor, she ends where she began--in another Village apartment. This one looks out on a brick-walled garden, and before going to sleep, she opens her bedroom window to get that old charge: the sound of Manhattan "buzzing...
With the aid of a CD-ROM-generated street map of Clearfield, Sayer guides the van to Hall's house. It's a modest but tidy red brick home with an American-flag wreath on the door. Bingo! "That looks like a Nellye Hall house," Sayer says with approval. The team doubles back into town to meet up with the car dealer who has brought the Jag in from Harrisburg. And then: Showtime. But alas, Prize Patrol history is not to be made. Hall turns out to be a great-grandmother of preternatural calm. Confronted by cameras, hysterical Patrol members...