Word: prefab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the building battle, Bishop Ignacy Tokarczuk of Przemysl called on the people to "break the line of fear." No Catholic in his diocese, he decided, should have to walk more than 2½ miles to church. Starting in the mid-1960s, his parishioners would secretly assemble small, prefab churches, then put them together overnight without permission. In the morning the authorities would be presented with an act of faith accompli. A day came when the bishop was led off to be fined at the prosecutor's office for his actions, but such a noisy phalanx of Catholic housewives...
...Your wife knows what you are. Your kids know what you are . . ." But how far can he push it? Collins goes to the man's house. The TV is blaring, Merv Griffith is ranting about Jacqueline Susanne, a great artist. He wanders through the suspiciously quiet house--a prefab chalet sitting in Vancouver. Can he collect? How much is all this hype worth? How far are you willing to push...
...first combat jet, but Hitler stalled its production until the Third Reich's final days. Held in custody for two years after the war, and like other German aircraft makers forced to observe a ten-year Allied ban on production, Messerschmitt turned to building sewing machines, prefab houses and three-wheel midget autos. In the early 1950s he again began to design planes, first in Spain for Franco and later in Germany...
...movie is hard to dismiss, for its prefab ingredients are often stirred to a boil. Energetically directed and well acted (largely by unknowns), Saturday Night Fever succeeds in capturing the animal drive of disco music and the social rituals of the people who dance to its beat. Were it not for some failures of dramatic nerve in the second half, this film might actually have been the rock-'n'-roll Rocky it so desperately aspires...
...more than 1.5 million foreign workers have arrived to labor on development projects, rents have soared 600% in 18 months to ridiculous levels. A house in Jedda rents for $2,200 a month. Foreign firms are required to bring along prefab housing for their workers. Turnover is high among foreign workers. The Saudis imported thousands of Egyptians only to see them leave after saving up their high wages for a few months. Europeans and Americans are often bored by austere moral standards imposed by Saudi Arabia's ascetic Wahabi sect of Islam...