Word: bricked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...often rode around Chicago with him in his olive green Range Rover. It was a joy to see the city through his eyes. One day we drove over to an apartment on the Northwest Side where he'd lived as a child, and loitered in front of a burgundy-brick three-flat with a concrete stoop and a tiny yard surrounded by necklace-like chains. We stood on the cracked sidewalk as if contemplating a shrine...
...have enough trouble walking down Cambridge’s narrow brick sidewalks. I am wildly uncoordinated, often stumbling over errantly laid bricks and occasionally slipping off the curb into oncoming traffic...
...thing that distinguishes Grahame Walsh's home from any other in suburban Brisbane is the eerie silhouette overlooking his letterbox. It depicts a wanjina - a mysterious ancient figure painted on cave walls in Australia's remote northwest. But the figure merely hints at what lies inside the two-story brick house: hundreds of thousands of images of some of the country's most extraordinary pieces of rock art, including the famous Bradshaw paintings, many of them unseen by non-Aborigines until Walsh trekked through hostile, lonely terrain to photograph them...
...wrong; this is a man who will never be forgotten. He has touched too many lives throughout the world to ever completely depart from our thoughts. His role in ending communism over a decade ago will certainly be remembered by even the most secular. The bells ringing in mud brick churches in Africa and in grandiose cathedrals in Europe, the muffled prayers of illegal congregations in China, and the tears pouring from the faces of tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square bear testament to the massive impact he and his passing have had on so many...
...feared ones, get the best work out of employees. Nastiness, which he says is rampant, translates into less productivity, higher turnover and a culture of unhappiness. And don't assume, in this day of BlackBerrys and e-mail, that your unpleasantness stops at the office door. "As the brick wall that once separated professional from personal crumbles," says Sanders, "we are slowly becoming the same person 24/7...