Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across a red brick factory near Providence, R.I. a huge sign sprawls: UNIVERSAL WINDING co., WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF TEXTILE WINDING MACHINES...
...heaviest brickbat any high official of the U.S. had yet thrown at Adolf Hitler then left the hands of cool, calm Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, who purposely chose that gathering as audience for his brick-heaving. Said he, answering rumors that the Nazis may soon campaign for a negotiated peace: "There can come no peace until the Hitlerite Government of Germany has been finally and utterly destroyed...
...Where they had stood there was a crater, with two mounds of debris on each side of it. ... Ford climbed on to the debris ... he found that it was made up of an extraordinary texture of brick and plaster rubble . . . pieces of crockery, often unbroken, all made into a homogeneous, tight-pressed pudding...
...Pass it under the buttocks.' . . . Her black hair was mingled and matted with the brick rubble...
When Father Chisholm reached Pai-tan, he found "an acre of deserted earth, sun-scorched, gullied by the rains. ... At one end stood the remnants of a mud-brick chapel, the roof blown off, one wall collapsed, the others crumbling. Alongside lay a mass of caved-in rubble which might once have been a house." "Here, Father," said one of the only two rice-Christians left of the congregation, "is the mission...