Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took science a while to catch up with the old brick ovens, but early in September two gas-heated vaults with revolving trays replaced them. As yet, no flour covered witch has baked any unsuspecting Cliffe dwelling Gretel...
...King spent an hour and a half at "Woodside," the twelve-acre estate on Spring Street where he lived for nine years. The big, yellow brick house is now owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime it is rented to Polish-born Tony Kielbasa, a tanner. Mr. King pointed to the spot where he and his brother had once pitched their tent and to a bank that had once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley...
...powerful than any other Russian city. She hoped to make it succeed history's two earlier Romes (the one on the Tiber and the one on the Bosporus). Ivan took the title of Czar, i.e., Caesar, and Sovereign of all the Russias. He began to build a strong brick wall around the Kremlin: it still stands today.† Then Moscow was ruled by Ivan IV, called the Terrible, who decisively defeated the Tartars and gave Moscow its first secret police-the blackclad Oprichniki ("extras"), who were mounted on black horses and carried a broom...
...America, actually there is no voice of the people at the helm of affairs.") While other nations were still waiting to be allotted suitable Embassy quarters in the crowded capital, newly arrived Mrs. Pandit went straight to the head of the diplomatic queue, was promptly given a well-kept brick residence by Soviet officials...
...windowed brick factory in Farnumsville, Mass., orders for Tupperware were pouring in-from the American Thermos Bottle Co. for 7,000,000 nesting cups; from Canada Dry Ginger Ale for 50,000 bowls to sell with beverages; from Tek Corp. for 50,000 tumblers to sell with toothbrushes; from Camel for 300,000 cigaret cases. To top it off, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art would include two of Tupper's bowls in a forthcoming show of useful objects...