Word: cinderblock
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Although freshmen trapped in Canaday’s cinderblock cells may envy their Apley Court peers, even the best-situated Harvard students would kill to live in certain Boston University dorms—namely the Hyatt Regency and the Holiday Inn. For more than a decade, BU has been solving its housing shortage problem by stashing a few hundred freshmen in local hotels. This year, there are 484 students residing in the Hyatt and 120 shacking up in the Holiday Inn, according to the Daily Free Press, Boston University’s student newspaper. In the second semester, however...
...dashed up stairs and dived onto the roof to get cover. He screamed into his radio for tank support, and moments later, M-1A1 tanks advanced on the school and began shelling, sending up huge plumes of smoke and leaving gaping holes in the cinderblock buildings. On the roof, members of 3rd platoon emptied magazines into the enemy positions, while other squads joined in from adjacent buildings...
James Mosley was both too poor and too proud to leave. His legs were paralyzed since childhood, but it meant the world to James, 52, to strut his independence: he insisted on living by himself in a small, green cinderblock house in the working-class section of Biloxi, Miss., called Point Cadet. And whenever hurricanes approached the Gulf Coast, James adamantly refused suggestions that, given his wheelchair-bound vulnerability, he should evacuate. Says his brother Robert, "He had a big, brave heart...
Over the last three weeks, however, bus riding has grown on me. I like watching the homes change from Bondi’s crowded cinderblock condos to Paddington’s stately Victorian terraces. I like cheering on the pigeons that must battle seagulls and egrets to secure their food. I like spotting date palms and bottlebrushes (a sort of cross between a corncob and dandelion) where I least expect them...
...prisoners and numbers of their graves. Notified by an inmates' group, families immediately traveled to the cemetery, 25 miles west of Baghdad in the city of Al Hawsa. What they found, tucked in a well-kept conventional cemetery, was a rectangular field twice the size of a gridiron. A cinderblock wall blocked off the space. High above it were watchtowers apparently manned by guards to keep out unauthorized visitors...