Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told. 70 pictures and sculptures were damaged or destroyed, including a number of Rocky-owned works by Braque. Matisse, Klee and Picasso, and seven paintings by American Masters Inness. Sully and Stuart that had been left by his predecessor, W. Averell Harriman. The 40-room brick mansion itself was so ravaged that the state was considering abandonment...
...Rubble. Hacilar, now reduced to little more than a farmer's field, has 16 building levels, one on top of another. Digging down to the sixth level of rubble. Mellaart, who has roamed the Anatolian Plateau off and on for a decade, found the remains of brick houses with windows, double doors, walls three feet thick and carefully constructed staircases leading to a second story. The discovery of grinding platforms and storage bins for wheat, barley, peas and lentils convinced Mellaart that the Late Neolithic inhabitants of Hacilar were successful farmers who probably had domesticated cattle...
...much of a barrier, but to Griff Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves to trace a few more lines on the meticulously mapped social topography of postwar Britain. New to this socially useful labor, Novelist Gallie adds a wonderful Welsh fluency, quite...
...thought were as stiff as a brick-built wall...
...Norfolk, Mass Prison is a long, concrete corridor leading into a small chamber that can be filled in two seconds with enough gas to knock a man unconscious. The exit from the chamber opens directly into the prison's inner yard, where rows of iron grey dormitories and brick administrative buildings line a large rectangular plot surrounded by a fifteen foot stone wall...