Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Versailles is now saved," beamed André Cornu, French under secretary of state for fine arts. Calling in Paris newsmen he triumphantly announced that the money had finally been raised to start a major restoration job on the famous old palace which has long been in seedy disrepair (TIME...
...proceedings are as lightheaded as they are lighthearted. Because the castle is in such an appalling state of disrepair and lacks central heating, Ermyntrude has to haunt it in a muffler. But the other characters pay little attention to her. "A nice little thing," observes one of them, "but rather pale." Castle in the Air is a nice little thing, too, and anything but pale...
Through the centuries, the church where Pocahontas was buried, St. George's at Gravesend, fell into disrepair; Gravesend itself, a Thames dock area, became a rundown parish. But in 1947, a new vicar, the Rev. Richard Daunton-Fear, arrived and began an energetic campaign to restore the parish churches. Last week, after four years of fundraising, St. George's Church, newly named a "Chapel of Unity," was rededicated. It is now a spruce Georgian structure with arched windows and a fine Jacobean altar rail...
...civilian goods will be accumulating during the period of cutbacks. Detroit automakers estimate that fully one-third of the 42 million cars now on the road are over 15 years old. The roads themselves are no longer adequate for today's high-speed cars, and many fell into disrepair during the war years; an estimated $40 billion is needed to modernize them alone. The oil industry believes it will have to spend $11.2 billion in a decade, expand by one-third merely to keep abreast of rising demand. The U.S. will need at least 6,000,000 new homes...