Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who come. But the Abbé's example has its effect; one group has constructed a shrine to the Virgin out of wood and terra cotta and calls its area Notre Dame des Sans Logis (Our Lady of the Homeless). Behind his own house is a tiny brick chapel where Abbé Pierre regularly says Mass for the two priests, five seminarians and twelve laymen who work with...
Located on distant Divinity Avenue, close to several of Harvard's other great museums, Peabody may seem a remote outpost of the University. To the visitors who venture behind it drab red-brick exterior, however, the Museum offers an abundance of unusual exhibits. Seemingly endless display halls, spread over five floors, testify to the size of Peabody's world-wide anthropological collections. In fact, to discover all the Museum's displays is a feat of exploration in itself...
...Place has no church, no chapel, no cinema, no football field. About all it does have are three streets of red brick houses, 259 inhabitants who mostly work in the local Beamish Mary coalpit, and a hearty dislike for Durham County authorities. For No Place learned last week that Durham's planners had condemned it to slow extinction...
...Into a Brick Wall. In a stunting airplane, where the G-forces last for several seconds, a sitting pilot can take about ten Gs, when he is dressed in a special suit to keep the blood from being drained from his brain. A man on the Air Force sled can take more for shorter periods. How much he can take depends on his position and how his body is supported...
...Lieut. Colonel John P. Stapp, a husky flight surgeon whose sled rocketed at 175 m.p.h. before being braked. He was strapped facing backward in a specially built seat, which is what saved him. He took 46.8 Gs for .008 seconds (equivalent to running an automobile into a solid brick wall at 120 m.p.h.). His body at the moment of impact weighed close to four tons, and his blood was more than three times as heavy as mercury...