Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine old-fashioned Palmerstonian display of Empire. R.A.F. fighters buzzed up and down the 750-mile-long camel tracks running into Saudi Arabia, searching out reinforcements bound for Turki. Jeep-borne Oman levies roamed everywhere, terrifying camel caravans. From a 40-foot-high Beau Geste-like tower of mud-brick reinforced with palm logs-containing storerooms for food, water and ammunition, and slotted for rifles-a young British major named Peter MacDonald was happily running the show...
...started lamely; the crowd was tepid. Then, in a plaza-edge restaurant 500 feet from the balcony, a bomb went off with a brick-shattering blast. The crowd stirred, but did not stampede. Another bomb exploded minutes later in a subway station near the restaurant (the blasts killed six persons, wounded nearly a hundred). Perón blanched. Then he abandoned his prepared speech and began to extemporize-with increasing confidence...
...argument rolled on until it was too late to vote that day: Bob Taft had announced that he didn't want a vote after 5 p.m. because he had to be home at 5:30 for a tea in honor of Mamie Eisenhower. At the Tafts' red brick Victorian house in Georgetown, men who had been snarling at one another over the Bohlen case met, chatted and sipped. Everything was as sweet as California port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor-tongued Lady Astor, eying...
...Communist jail in Hungary this week, a 48-year-old British businessman glumly contemplates ten more years' imprisonment ; in a red brick prison in Malaya, a 25-year-old girl guerrilla leader placidly weaves baskets. A month ago the Communists offered to free Edgar Sanders, who was accused of espionage in Hungary, if the British would free Lee Meng, who was doomed to hang for bearing arms against the British in Malaya's jungles. Since then, the Sultan of Perak commuted Lee Meng's sentence to life imprisonment, and Sanders' wife and three daughters raised their...
...respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy . . . If I am to consider contributions they vary infinitely-all that any man contributes is giving a direction to force. The architect does it on a larger scale than the bricklayer who only sees that a brick is laid level. I know no a priori reason why he should not have a greater reward. Kant did it on a larger scale than the architect . . . Some kind of despotism is at the bottom of the seeking for change. I don't care to boss my neighbors . . . even...