Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, to make sure he had never been on the Nazi side, he was quizzed for seven days in the Army screening center in Bad Orb. Then the A.M.G. rounded up ten editorial assistants for him, lent them newsprint, and put them to work in the big red brick building that once housed the famed Ullstein publishing house...
...away from the cluster of tall buildings which give northwest Kansas City its impressive skyline - a skyline dominated by the 30-story, $6,000,000 city hall, built during the Pendergast days and still much too large for the city's needs. They passed the two-story, yellow brick building at 1908 Main, where Old Tom Pendergast's greedy fingers had pulled the strings. The lights there were still on ; Jim Pendergast's men were measuring their defeat...
...Spanish shopping center of J. C. Nichols' famed suburban development (TIME, Dec. 1). Just beyond, they turned west along Brush Creek, lined and bottomed with the concrete Tom Pendergast sold. Just across the Kansas line, the car turned up a short driveway to a large stone-and-brick house,† a full eight-iron shot from the tenth green of the Mission Hills golf course. As he opened the front door, Roberts whistled shrilly and yelled to his wife: "Hey, Madam, I'm home...
...Street, there is Sioux Center, Iowa. Sioux Center is a Corn Belt town of 2,000 people. Of a Saturday evening, shiny new Fords and Plymouths, parked at an angle to the curb, line both sides of the street. Back from the broad sidewalks, the one-story frame and brick buildings house a pair of hash-houses, a Rexall drugstore, a Chevrolet agency, Dejong's Hatchery. There are no traffic lights...
...Dirt. In Doñihue, Chile, householders found skulls and bones embedded in their walls, discovered that the local brick factory had been getting its clay from the cemetery...