One night I sat on the patio contemplating the honeycomb of cinder block houses that filled the ravine.
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And there he was at his desk in a cinder block room and it was like a prison cell.
For one, they usually have dirt, grease and oil stuck under their fingernails, and they know the difference between a small block and a cinder block.
Outside the cluster of cinder block structures that make up Kano's Infectious Diseases Hospital, hundreds of sick children are lined up, awaiting treatment from Doctors Without Borders, the nonprofit group, which has set up a tent on hospital grounds.
The address Allied listed as its headquarters appeared abandoned, the long, gray cinder-block building bare inside.
He appears to be standing sentry in deep shadows in front of a cinder-block wall.
The Lovings were free to go home and live together, in a new cinder-block house Richard built himself.
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The tiny row houses, the gray cinder-block walls, seemed to stretch for miles.
Inside the hangarlike, cinder-block space, folding tables are piled with mountains of yarn, looming gear and books with titles like Knitting with Dog Hair.
Wearing a baggy, navy corduroy suit brightened by a turquoise Little Bear tie, Hirsh, 51, is holding court in his cinder-block-walled office in a former munitions factory in Toronto.
They arrived at the Department of Health and Human Services, a giant cinder-block building that stands close to the United States Capitol, and found the mood on the sixth floor rather festive.
Its brawny design including double-layer cinder-block walls reinforced by heavy duty steel bars and cement piers that plunge 30 feet into the ground should allow it to withstand winds up to 200 mph.
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To prepare for the show, exhibit curator Paul Martineau spent several months plowing through 1, 200 boxes of prints in a cold cinder-block room at the Herb Ritts Foundation in Hollywood, looking for shots with the L.A.-bred photographer's signature style: glowing California light, bold shadows, bare skin and film-noir settings.
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