Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those inmates judged "criminally-insane," who are under commitment or in for pre-trial observation, were moved across the road last December into a new maximum-security complex that has toilets in the cells and is surrounded by a double barbed-wire steel fence instead of brick walls. Those judged as SDPs remain behind in the old prison, one part of which is so dirty that a federal district court judge last September challenged on confinement in Bridgewater on the grounds that it was cruel and unusual punisment...
Long lines of jobless Detroiters were trailing out of the red brick office of the Michigan Employment Security Commission on Conner Avenue when Labor Secretary Peter Brennan stopped by for a recent visit. To his consternation, he was greeted with a storm of catcalls. "You promised us jobs," one man shouted. "You shouldn't come around here and smile at us. We're mad!" Added a furloughed Chrysler employee: "They ought...
...women, one from the organizing committee, the other from a group marching, bicker over whether to go up Commonwealth Avenue or Boylston Street, A police permit has been issued for Commonwealth, a pleasant tree-shaded avenue lined with grimy brick apartments, but not for Boylston,' which cuts through one of Boston's more affluent shopping districts. Later the Globe said that shopkeepers had complained to the Mayor that the march would disrupt their business. The two ladies, one short with short brown hair, the other taller in a long brown coat and with an ugly motley-skinned face, engage...
...another meeting. It's the first really cold, clear day in late November, and secretaries at the Business School are coming in to Kresge Hall for their lunch hour. Kresge, you understand, is one of the B-School's imposing, immaculate buildings--quiet, a mass of glass and brick, exuding the aura of Olympian top-management executive retreats. Over on one side of the ground floor is a cafeteria where some of the secretaries eat plastic-wrapped sandwiches and drink half-pint cartons of Lo-Fat milk off of plastic trays...
...Mexican lava stone and placed near the Alamo on the spot where some of its defenders are said to have been burned in 1836. Mrs. Johnson pushed a button, the Ladybird Fountain gushed, and in a way, so did its namesake. Making the best of San Antonio's brick-oven climate, she wished: "Long may it cool the breezes in summertime in San Antonio...