Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brick buildings are rubble; wooden buildings are ashes. The Kremlin is a collection of shells. From ruins the Germans have torn window frames and doors for their dugouts. Every store has been looted. The inhabitants who remain have no food but potatoes, and these are often taken from them by soldiers. Anyone who appears in the streets by night is shot...
...green emergency squad wagon from the Police Department drove up when a bomb made a direct hit on a one-story brick house, setting it on fire. Up drove a "catastrophe" ambulance from Bellevue with interns and nurses; up drove a red Consolidated Edison truck to fix broken gas mains and cables; a station wagon with "Mobile Blood Plasma Unit No. i" on the side...
...cannot stand low altitudes. "Every year," said Dr. Monge, "about 100,000 men come down to sea level for agricultural work, but after about three months . . . like the swallows . . . they go back to the altitude." The doctor has accustomed himself to spend several weeks a year at his red brick experimental station in Huancayo 10,000 feet up; after a few days he feels fine...
Through the portals of the imposing Colonial structure, whose red brick walls, terraced cupola, and white cornices are in harmony with the architecture of the seven Houses, daily troop a legion of athletes from fields conveniently nearby; and while their equipment is repaired and scrubbed snow-white by a privately-owned laundry, their bruises and sprains are attended by a staff of trainers and doctors who know most of the boys by their first names, and are even more familiar with their injuries...
...Chinese spirit is more durable than brick and mortar. The adaptable citizens of Chungking immediately started enlarging dugouts, so that work could be carried on there. Mass evacuations to the country began. The no-immediate-danger signal was sounded sooner, so that dugout denizens could get more air. Construction began on a new Press Hostel...