Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentenced to five years at hard labor. Dishonored by her brother's crime, the younger sister ran away and became a prostitute; the elder stayed home to be an old maid. The old man died in the poorhouse. Alessi and the girl he loved, Nunziata, were left to rebuild the family's fortunes. "The house of the Malavoglia is destroyed'' a neighbor said in epitaph. "Cursed be the fate that led to so many misfortunes...
...harmonize with Soldiers Field." When the last spires were being attached, a workman, following the precedent of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, kicked over a can of hot creosote. The structure was burnt to the ground, and the alumni were singed too--for the $15,000 necessary to rebuild the house...
...changed very radically, almost reversed itself," World Bank President Eugene R. Black reported to the U.N. Economic and Social Council last week. "The postwar backlog of demand for goods and services in the industrialized countries has been in large part satisfied. And the critical shortages which plagued efforts to rebuild and expand industrial capacity have generally been overcome. Although inflationary pressures persist, inflation has to some extent subsided...
Last week Munich was getting a new church to replace the old Neo-Renaissance building, but it was not the kind most churchgoers expected. For their design, the Lutherans had turned to Architect Gustav Gsaenger, 53, asked him for something that would cost no more than to rebuild the old church, yet would hold twice as large a congregation. Architect Gsaenger's proposal: a stark, clean-lined, oblong structure, to hold 1,000 worshipers and cost only 2,500,000 marks (about $595,000). Gsaenger's church has no traditional spire, no cruciform nave. Instead, it will have...
...voters were in a truculent mood. They voted down the government's candidate for mayor, in protest to the government's failure to check inflation; they also slapped down the Communists' candidate, giving him only 4.3% of the vote. Last week the Reds set out to rebuild prestige by a show of strength. Their tactic: seize control of strikes started by non-Communists angry over inflation...