Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puffs casually on Luckies, likes his Scotch and soda strong and unstirred. His idea of Saturday fun in Flint is a run through the Buick plant in the morning and a poker game with his City Club cronies in the afternoon. He lives in a relatively modest red brick corner house, with a three-car garage. In the garage: his wife's Buick Roadmaster convertible, daughter Dorothy Anne's Buick Century convertible, and his personal, flashy Buick Skylark convertible, now being hopped up with a new experimental engine and transmission...
Present plans call for the bridge to be approximately 180 feet long, with the walking ramp ten feet wide. It will be constructed of steel, concrete, and red brick...
Artifacts of Achievement. For six triphammer days, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin traveled in genial, flower-showered near-silence at his side, the chief of Russian Bolshevism carried the brick-loaded Red hod through Burma. He heaved some bricks at the West, crashed others through the plate-glass facts of history. Some he carefully mortared into the structure of Communism's new policy in Asia. All in all, he must have accounted it a good week's work. The Burmans had not displayed the tumultuous enthusiasm of the Indians, but when the pair left Rangoon to return to India...
...first-and second-shift Marxes occupy a rambling, white-pillared Georgian mansion on a 20-acre estate in suburban Scarsdale, just off the Hutchinson River Parkway. Marx bought the red brick house for his first wife during World War II, but before they could move in, Renee Freda Marx died of cancer. After that, says Rosie O'Donnell, "Lou was both father and mother" to his children: Barbara, now 26, wife of Artist-Writer Earl Hubbard; Louis Jr., 24, a Princeton graduate, now a Marine lieutenant; Jacqueline ("Jackie"), a pretty, dark-haired Vassar graduate who joins New Jersey Republican Senator...
...Brick Veneer. To get around the disadvantages of conventional bricks, which are heavy, costly to transport, and cannot be laid easily in cold weather, Chicago's Ludowici-Celadon Co. has developed Nail-On, a hard clay brick ¾ in. thick. It can be nailed to a wall through a lip protruding along its top edge; the bottom edge of the next brick overlaps the lip to form a neat joint. Mortar can be applied whenever builder and weather are ready...