Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Avenue, running from case to case with explanations of coincidence and business as usual. Sarah McClendon, the redoubtable journalist with the foghorn voice, lobbed one into Nixon's cool and respectable press conference last week, and for a moment the President seemed to have been hit with a brick. Why didn't he "make a clean breast" and explain the Watergate case? she bellowed. Nixon, taking a few seconds to recover, calmly answered that the case was being investigated and legal niceties required that he not comment. But the question lingered. Is it believable that the President...
Other areas of concern to South House residents include the unlocked door into the South House Grill and the back staircases in all of the large brick dorms...
...view that the gullible deserve to be gulled. "The name of the game" is a phrase that keeps coming from Suskind, who also likes to quote W.C. Fields' untrue statement that "you can't cheat an honest man." It is one thing to offer a gold brick to a stranger, but it is quite another to sell watered stock to your neighbors. Irving based his swindle on the fact that his own publishers knew him and assumed that he was honest. From that misguided trust, as much as from Irving's talents as a fabricator, all else...
...early 19th century Belgium, Adolphe Sax was struck on the head by a brick. The accident-prone lad also swallowed a needle, fell down a flight of stairs, toppled onto a burning stove, and accidentally drank some sulfuric acid. When he grew up, he invented the saxophone...
...movement to Consist--the impending John F. Kennedy Library Center--is transforming the area. Already a shopping mall is rising next to Holyoke Center, acrylics are replacing brick storefronts, rents are rising out of sight, and soil experts are boring into the Common and MBTA yard. And much more is coming...