Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hill, the Roman Senate tried for centuries to keep republican government alive; the Caesars ended it. Today, at the foot of that hill, in the Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), which runs almost exactly along Rome's ancient city limits, stands a smart red brick house; there'rules the affable Palm-Branch Caesar of Italian Communism. His Communist Party organization is (as in all countries) a state within a state; in Italy, that shadow state happens to be more substantial than the feeble real...
...planning), he prefers to gawk at Manhattan's cluttered masonry like any visiting fire man. The Niemeyer opinion of Rockefeller Center-"good"; of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s great 11,250-family Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town projects on the East River-"commercial, crowded, all brick and no glass...
...battered wooden door. A woman opened it and urged us to enter. In a room 12 ft. by 16 ft. we found a minor miracle of family planning. Seven people lived, cooked, ate and slept in this space, whose only privacy was a tiny curtained cubicle behind a big brick Russian stove, on top of which a boy slept at night. The room, a salvaged bit of cellar with a 2 by 3 ft. window, was as neat as ninepence...
...brick building of the Young Friends in Philadelphia, 14 Quakers gathered for a meeting. The "sense" of that meeting-held on April 30, 1917-grew into the American Friends Service Committee, which for millions of the world's sufferers has made the word "Quaker" synonymous with "help...
...Ford, the smell of gasoline had been like perfume. He was born a tinker, not a farmer, which was what his farmer father had wanted him to be. He was also born stubborn, so he quit the farm and ended up tinkering with a gasoline contraption in a red brick shed back of his house in Detroit. One day in 1896 he took an ax to the wall of the shed (the door was too small) and drove the contraption out into the world. That was the start. He believed in gasoline and the engine. Seven years later, aged...