Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphs of saints and the victories of skeptics, the little company of faithful has spread across the world. Christians have given themselves strange names and have worshiped the Father, Son and Holy Ghost with commissions and omissions that would have shocked Rome's primitive Christians. The big brick church on Richmond's statue-stippled Monument Avenue, where Thomas Davis was baptized last week, would not look to Publius like a church at all. But the ceremony was the same, and the first-century Christian, generally unaware of baptism by sprinkling or pouring, would likely feel at home...
...mainspring is Ted Adams-he is made of such finely tempered steel that he can work all day, seven days a week, and still be the most relaxed man in Richmond. His day begins at 7 a.m., in the Adams' comfortable red brick house on Matoaka Road. After a leisurely breakfast with his wife and her mother...
Most recent example is Architect Eero Saarinen's new cylindrical chapel for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIME, June 29, 1953), built of rough-textured brick and separated from the campus by a narrow moat. Meant to harmonize with the nearby brick dormitories, the nondenominational chapel presents a severe mask on its exterior; within, it is a citadel for repose and worship...
Putting to Pickett. Farmer Redding's original red brick house, now painted white, contains the dining room and a modernized version of the big, old-fashioned kitchen that delighted Mamie when she first saw it. In the new north wing living room is a white marble fireplace brought to the White House by President Pierce in 1854, junked by President Arthur in 1882 and tracked down through the Smithsonian Institution by White House aides, who secretly installed it at Gettysburg. Upstairs are six bedrooms and a studio in which Ike can paint as he looks out over the Blue...
Today the academy has 800 cadets living in Quonset huts near the red brick and concrete administration and classroom buildings. Since the curriculum is modeled closely on West Point's, K.M.A. is not only South Korea's chief military school, but also its top engineering school. Like West Pointers, the cadets get basic liberal arts plus huge doses of mathematics and science. But all must master English, the professional language of the school, and then take two years of either Russian, Chinese, French or German...