Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies of Cameron Highlanders were airlifted from Kenya to Persian Gulf bases, two British frigates slipped into the Sultan's coastal waters and four R.A.F. jet fighters roared up from a Persian Gulf sandstrip to fire rockets and cannon into the mud-brick-walled rebel citadels in the mountains of Oman. Cairo's press and radio filled the air with shouts about "a British attack on Arab nationalism." Actually it was not much of a war; only the current state of Middle East nerves made it front-page news...
Many of the 2,800 friends and neighbors Who filled Prince Albert's sturdy old red brick armory have known John Diefenbaker since he was a lanky prairie lawyer, using a shrewd judgment of human nature and an effective bag of courtroom theatrics to win difficult jury cases. When the welcoming speeches ended, Diefenbaker responded: "Our house will be in Ottawa, but our home will always be in Prince Albert...
...Captain Evan P. Aurand, Ike will relax at Marine-guarded, 92-acre Coaster's Harbor Island, a secluded U.S. Navy installation (home of the Naval War College and a naval training station) hard by the lush Rhode Island summer colony, will stay in the twelve-room stone-and-brick quarters of the base commander. Prime assets in Ike's eyes: an adjacent naval air station, a convenient Navy base equipped with first-rate communications and hospital facilities, ready access to a fine golf course at nearby Newport Country Club...
Reporter Kinmond, a Canadian citizen and thus unaffected by the U.S. State Department's refusal to allow newsmen into Red China (TIME, May 6), found a "nation in a hurry." a land of often violent contrast, where one-story brick huts jostle jerry-built skyscrapers, contraception clinics adjoin pagodas, Russian-built air transports load cargo from peditrucks. And, despite the chauvinistic pride that leads Communist functionaries and editors to date all progress from 1949, he found that "selfcriticism is almost a national phobia...
...overlapping and horizonless geography, Los Angeles has also grown beyond the conn of single powers like the Chamber of Commerce or even the select, sacred California Club, whose once-powerful members coached the city from the sidelines (and relegated newsmen-even Timesmen-to the rear elevators of its pink brick sanctuary on South Flower Street). Instead, any random list of the most influential Southern Californians would include both native sons and latecomers whose only connection with each other is that they find themselves appointed more or less to the same civic committees. For example...