Word: cinderblock
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...Last week a flatbed truck came and hauled away one of the junked cars from in front of the Hermit's one-story cinderblock house, half a mile down the road. Two junked cars remained, resting on blocks in the yard under raggedy trees. The Hermit drove a Ford Falcon station wagon, built about the time that Saigon fell. All the junked cars were Ford Falcons of the same vintage. He cannibalized the junkers when he needed spare parts...
...house. A letter from...his bank. We were all a little afraid of him, of his silence, his secret. A woman on a farm down the road called him "the Unabomber." The oldest woman in the valley, a woman in her eighties, said he had lived in the cinderblock house for forty years, on a shaggy stretch of uninhabited road beside the old gravel pit, which was filled in and covered up a year or two ago and already has vanished undetectably beneath a carpet of new pasture grass...
...Cinderblock and exposed pipes are de rigueur for juniors and seniors...
...Quincy and Leverett Towers-- buildings unlike any Harvard had ever seen-were designed in 1958. Gone were the fireplaces and the decorative wall moldings. Quincy and Leverett launched a new era of cinderblock...
Down there, beneath the snow and the cinderblock and the surface gentility, a hidden battle rages...