Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lower East Side, where a man had been reported roaming the streets with a rifle, a pair of New York cops last week began questioning a teen-age tough-and found themselves threatened by riot. A hostile crowd of some 200 persons milled around, a shower of bricks and other debris hurtled down from tenement rooftops. One brick, aimed at the policemen, struck and killed a bystander, Factory Worker Ramon Rojas...
...founders of little Mars Hill were in trouble as soon as they laid the last handmade brick on the first building in 1856. They owed the contractors $1,100; the treasury was empty. While they frantically passed the hat, the builders slapped a judgment on the Rev. J. W. Anderson, future secretary of the college. The Rev. Mr. Anderson owned a Negro named Joe -a strapping young man easily worth $1,100 on the slave market in nearby Asheville. Some say that Joe himself volunteered to be a human surety. The builders took him to jail for safekeeping. Four days...
...Harmony. Spreading the Mormon word in beleaguered Berlin are 56 missionaries-all Americans between 19 and 22, all but four of them men-whose living expenses, like those of all Mormon missionaries, are met by their own families and friends. Berlin's first red brick Mormon church was built eleven years ago. Another church, of radically modern design, was built last year in the northwestern Spandau section, and two more will go up soon...
...prosperous Sarasota real estate man and now chairman of New College's board of trustees. A jack-of-all-arts who never went beyond prep school (Choate), Hiss satisfied his itch to be an architect by designing his own Sarasota home, a $200,000 waterfront edifice of ceramic brick and blue aluminum. In 1953, appalled at the state of Sarasota schools, Hiss wound up as the first Republican elected to the school board since Reconstruction days. Result: a Hiss-bred splurge of handsome new buildings that made Sarasota one of the best-designed school systems in the U.S. (TIME...
...blades from Pittsfield, Mass., riding past the big brick house a century ago, might have smiled to hear them singing...