Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proximity of metropolitan Buffalo and the lure of markets (and profits) made available by the Thruway. There are old, elm-shaded Victorian homes hard by one and two story frame houses of no particular distinction; in the commercial district the new Citizens' Bank, done in businesslike red-brick modern, contrasts with the clapboard charm of Timm's Hardware. Attica has a variety of fraternal, youth and religious organizations, in addition to seven churches, all well attended on Sundays. The only movie theater, though, closed its doors a few years ago for lack of business. In normal times the most popular...
Although the clubs are alive and not likely to die a sudden death, they are a shadow of their former selves in terms of exclusiveness and social power. There is not exactly a racial mix in the red brick buildings along Mt. Auburn St., and the number of public high school graduates is low, but few people are upset because the clubs ignore them...
...potion again. But after so long a time, they could round up few able tappers. Those who remained took advantage of the situation, demanding, and getting, daily wage increases of from 41? to $1.33. They also received such unheard-of fringe benefits as salary advances, insurance, medical care, brick houses to live in instead of mud and straw huts, and profit sharing...
TIRANA (pop. 190,000) is probably the bleakest capital in the world. It is a city of dilapidated houses of pale red brick sometimes trimmed in yellow or faded blue, and ramshackle brick apartment buildings, of wooden street-corner stalls selling fruits, soft drinks and sweets, and of a few shops that feature more slogans than merchandise. The cafes are eternally packed with workers in shirtsleeves who sip Turkish coffee and pass the time in endless conversation in apparent defiance of the Communist Party's credo of hard work. It is a pedestrian's heaven; Albania is quite...
...Good Humor truck jingled incongruously in the street outside, a leader of the Irish Republican Army hunched over a table in a small brick house in Belfast last week and described the battle plans of his illegal organization. "We're not strong enough for a victory like that of the Allies in Europe," he said quietly, "but we can make it so expensive that the British will have to cut their losses...