cinderblock

I recently learned that Billy has been putting on a one-man science show, which includes laying down on a bed of nails and having someone break a cinderblock on his chest with a sledgehammer.

The Port Discover Science Center 2007

Admittedly, the sternum is a tough one, but if you can break a cinderblock with the heel of your hand, you can probably crack somebody's sternum, and if This Person were really so knowledgable about assassins and fighting, s/he would know that.

those who do, get criticized Holly 2004

Admittedly, the sternum is a tough one, but if you can break a cinderblock with the heel of your hand, you can probably crack somebody's sternum, and if This Person were really so knowledgable about assassins and fighting, s/he would know that.

Archive 2004-12-01 Holly 2004

The air was warm and acrid and the cinderblock walls were caked with soot.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

It was pitch-black at the bottom of the stairway, but then the rabbi flipped the light switch and David saw a large room with cinderblock walls.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

In the cinderblock hallway behind the stage there was a pay phone and a stack of milkcrates piled at the approximate height of a chair.

ceciliatan: Have We Got Contact ceciliatan 2010

Is this the protection of civilians? said local resident Rajab Sharaf, standing outside the burning building as the cinderblock walls buckled outward from the heat.

Libyan government shows reporters NATO bomb sites 2011

Ouattara forces inspect the papers of everyone who passes through a checkpoint in the Riviera neighborhood as young men build cinderblock barricades.

Ouattara Forces Move to Round Up Gbagbo Militants in Abidjan 2011

Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal The top floor of the two-story cinderblock building is devoted to packing and storage.

The Making of an Iconic Ball 2011

The top floor of the two-story cinderblock building off Connecticut's Route 8 is devoted to packing and storage.

Making a Wiffle Ball Joshua Robinson 2011