Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them living at or below the effective poverty line for South Africa's urban blacks, traditionally spend their modest year-end bonuses on a few toys, a bottle or two of brandy for a party, or perhaps a new piece of furniture for the drab little single-story brick houses in which they live...
...played with and against the best players in football since 1961 and I have to believe I belong with the best quarterbacks ever. I don't give a damn about artistry or how much velocity my pass develops or how many tight ends I can knock through a brick wall with my ball. Let the strong-arm cultists be happy with their images. I play. I play week in and week out, year in and year...
Other symptoms of homesickness included desires for mail, pets, friends, cribbage games, and, in the case of Kris Hodgkins '80, "anything but ivy-covered brick...
...agent dropped the bait, a dummy payoff package, beside the hydrant. For the next hour or so, all was tranquil. Several children passed the hydrant on their way to skate on a nearby pond. One boy spotted the package and stopped, but a husky man emerged from a brick house and ordered him on his way. The man began to rake leaves around the house. Several times he approached the package but did not touch it. Finally, when the leaves had been raked into neat piles, he reached down and grabbed the bait...
...aircraft comes closer and the carrier heaves on into the waves and the plane's speed does not diminish−one experiences a neural alarm he has never in his wildest fears imagined before: This is not an airplane coming toward me, it's a brick, and it is not gliding, it's falling, a fifty-thousand-pound brick, headed not for a stripe on the deck, but for me−and with a horrible smash...