Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans looted Romanoglio of its few farm machines, its clocks and its vino. Then the Eighth Army, advancing beyond the Sangro River in its mile-a-day advance to the north, finished the town. Shells splintered its olive groves, bashed in its shaky, brick-and-mortar houses, pitted its scrofulous, winding streets. After the shelling came the British tanks. After the tanks came the Gurkhas from India. They left their guns behind and moved like a scythe through the village with their curved steel kukris drawn. They came out with only one pris oner, a German officer. They had never...
...Chatting with Molotov one day in his room in the new yellow brick Russian Embassy, President Roosevelt picked up the inkwell on his desk, turned it over in his hand. Then he noticed the trademark: "Made in Germany." Molotov blushed, but finally laughed...
They include Mr. Buller, Vic's business associate, who pulls his own teeth; R. J. Konk, founder of Vic's lodge, the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way; Ruthie Stem-bottom, a family friend; Godfrey Dimlok, who invented a bicycle that could say "mama"; the Brick Mush (Vic & Sade's favorite breakfast food) salesman, who cries almost all of the time; Bluetooth Johnson; Cora Bucksaddle; Ole Chinbunny; Rishigan Fishigan of Sishigan, Michigan; Smelly Clark, and others...
...aesthetic peculiar to itself, it contrives its effects out of its own range of raw materials. Among the most familiar are the scarified surface of blasted walls, the chalky substance of calcined masonry, the surprising sagging contours of once rigid girders and the clear siena colouring of burnt-out brick buildings, their rugged cross-walls receding plane by plane, on sunny mornings in the City...
...Casablanca, several P-39s arrived with a vital fitting broken. Spare fittings, of the same material, were not to be trusted in combat. An A.S.C. officer scrounged some asbestos from the French for a crucible, made an oven from adobe brick, heated it with acetylene torches. With aluminum from salvaged German propellers and a little copper he made new hinges, put the planes into combat in three days. When fabric parts needed repairs, the same officer borrowed the only available sewing machine in town from a French dressmaker. It had no needles. He made some out of bicycle spokes...