Word: brickwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must support the bulges, which could not exist if the earth were a simple, spinning mass of plastic material. One possibility: the earth's mantle (the 1,800-mile layer below the crust) may not be as plastic as has been thought. It may have mechanical strength, like brickwork, that keeps the earth out of shape. Another possibility: the bulges are supported by slow currents in the mantle, which push up the surface like massive bubbles in a spring...
...Francisco's worst quake since 1906, but seismologists reported that it hit only 5.5 on the Richter scale, just one-thousandth as strong as the big 1906 disaster. Property damage-broken windows, cracked walls, crumbled brickwork -reached into the millions of dollars. But there were no deaths, and no really serious injuries (a woman dropped a coffeepot on her toe; a man broke his foot running downstairs at City Hall). There was some hysteria as the city went through a whole series of shocks (including the minor aftershocks), but San Franciscans-who cherish their earthquakes as they do their...
...diggers extended their trenches across the mound, they found an enormous mass of burned limestone and brickwork. It turned out to be a palace, whose plan suggested in some ways the sophisticated civilization of Knossos on the island of Crete. The diggers speculated that when Knossos was destroyed by the Mycenians (Homeric Greeks) about 1400 B.C., a Cretan architect may have escaped and plied his trade among the Arzawans...
...construction work of defenses he had designed. Proud of his plan, the captain showed them how he had sunk the fort in the top of a knoll so that the fireports opened only six inches above the ground. Trenches connecting its four buried corner bastions were arched over with brickwork. The lightly armed soldiers figured that if the fort were overrun, they could continue fighting from the tunnels...