Word: brickly
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...crafts movement that was launched in England in the 1880s, inspired by the work of the designer-poet William Morris. They enlisted a kindred spirit-Eliel Saarinen, then Finland's leading architect-to serve as Cranbrook's designer, president and guiding force. Saarinen's stately, romantic brick buildings, with their web of walkways, courts, terraces, stairs and walls, all highlighted with sculptures and other objects by the outstanding artists Saarinen attracted to Cranbrook, probably represent this century's most successful integration of architecture, landscape design and works of art. Every brick, shrub, fountain, gate and ornament...
...plaque, stolen once before, was securely attached with six leg bolts. One end of the bolts was screwed to the back of the cypress-carved wood, and the other end was embedded into the brick...
...elite groups, such as the boys' choir at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach once served as music director. State employees are expected to be atheists. Jobs in teaching, the courts, or the military are automatically out of bounds for believers. The historic Friedrichskirche, a squat brick church with pointed steeple that Frederick the Great built in Potsdam, seats 900 people, but no more than 150 parishioners attend Sunday services...
...attacks to punish Kuwait, France and the U.S. for allegedly supporting Iraq in its 42-month war against Iran. Yet the attempt proved to be both ill-managed and ill-starred. Most of the blast from a car bomb outside the French embassy was absorbed by a thick brick wall. Another car bomb, meant to wreck a local petrochemical complex, exploded outside the compound. A truck that burst wildly through the gates of the U.S. embassy was piled high with 45 butane gas cylinders, but only ten of them exploded. Very little was left of Suicide Driver Raad Muftin Ajeel...
...side of the street stands a row of apartment buildings five stories high, which were built around the turn of the century. On the other side stands a similar row, but this one shows the scars and charred brick of a recent fire. The building has been ravaged by vandals, like hundreds of others in this area...