Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convention. Her husband sank back in his chair, and went on relaxing. Without much doubt in this week before renouncing his candidacy, he was the most relaxed of all the Democratic hopefuls. After announcing his candidacy in Washington, he had defied all political rules by retreating to his comfortable brick house in Kentucky. He puttered around his four farms. He went on picnics with Mrs. Barkley; he helped his hired man saw up an old cherry...
...general, still has all his own teeth. Only his eyes are a problem: he can barely see without his thick-lensed glasses. Recently he came out of a successful operation for cataract and cracked to Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence: "You know I can see through a brick wall. The girls had better start wearing heavier clothes...
...fortnight ago, Mohammed Mossadegh, the Lion of Abadan, decided to survey his political fences after 14 months as Premier. He called a few Majlis leaders to his big beige brick house and asked: "Well, what do you think of my policies, generally?" Said a deputy, after a long pause: "We've always been in favor of everything you've done, Your Excellency, but . . ." Mossadegh cut in impatiently: "That's it! That 'but'! You approve of everything I do, but you always nullify it with...
...years the swarthy men of Cabernardi, their fathers and their grandfathers before them have dug sulphur out of the vine-covered hills around their village. The black-streaked yellow ore has brought them steady jobs, tidy red brick houses and a measure of happiness, but in recent years it has brought a creeping fear: What if the supply of sulphur should run out? As the mine shaft plunged deeper and deeper into the earth, even Cabernardi's Communists went regularly to the little parish church to pray to St. Barbara that the seam might last forever...
...TIME, Jan. 21). He was renowned as the founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus school, and youngsters for whom the words Gropius and Bauhaus meant crisp, challenging modernism followed him to Harvard. There, amid the pink & white Georgian of the Yard, he and his collaborators built a modern brick and glass graduate center. But for the most part, Gropius built little, was content to be a teacher, one of the three division chiefs in the School of Design, and a pervasive influence. Last month Harvard decided that rising costs required the elimination of Gropius' pet course in design...