Word: brickely
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...good fling." But the strike committee, with representatives of 24 nationalities, held the strike together. After pictures and newspaper accounts of the violence and the victory, the scene shifts to Angelo Rocco, an old man now. Standing on the banks of the Merrimack, he points across to the brick mills, now abandoned, and says in a heavy accent, "They called us un-American, but I really disagree with that. We were born in a foreign country, sure, but we love America much more than the owners of the mills...
...morning on a warm Saturday. New York City is asleep. But the crenellated red brick armory of the 101st Cavalry Squadron on Staten Island is busy. Hundreds of men in Army greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts...
...woman, a sophomore, was escorted to the corner of Garden and Shepard Streets by a friend. Continuing on her way home to the Quad, the woman was stopped by a man on the sidewalk between Garden St. and the entrance to the Quad, pulled into the shrubbery by the brick wall in front of Hilles, and raped...
...Blue Valentine" has been gathering dust in the unpaved car lot every afternoon for three weeks in October '79, while inside the faceless, uninviting brick and concrete complex Tom Waits -- beatnik balladeer, jazz journeyman (the ad might read: "Have gravelly voice. Will stand up and sing.") -- has been readying his band for a tour that will take them across the country and through Christmas, visiting theaters and small halls. "I don't play many beer bars any more," Waits explains. "I used to play exclusively toilets, that's all I wanted to play. But the thing is, you play toilets...
...pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...