Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...acres), help the peasantry to buy and cultivate them. The political, financial, administrative and technical difficulties are staggering. For example, some localities suffer now from too much fragmentation of land ownership; in others, the land must first have irrigation, fertilizers, etc. The slowness of the government program led last fall and spring to peasant seizures of land, especially in southern Italy, where conditions are most depressing. Blood was shed, and the Communists shouted. To forestall similar incidents, De Gasperi has launched a preliminary installment of his land reform...
...make everything clear. Summer is, of course, hotter; Gugel captured it in a high-heeled shoe of a curious sort. The heel of the shoe was formed by a half-naked girl, and the toe by a half-draped man on his knees before her. For fall, Gugel painted an "invisible" deer-outlined by flying spears topped off with a pair of antlers. Winter was a little man made of bark and a shoe made of snow...
Smoke-Bursts & Soot-Falls. As a comic strip, Capp's Li'l Abner is not the most popular in the U.S.: it can be accurately described only as one of the top five-a group which also includes Little Orphan Annie, Blondie, Dick Tracy and Joe Palooka. At least two of them, Blondie and Dick Tracy, claim more readers, but the promotion departments of national syndicates fire off such billowing smoke-bursts of conflicting claims that the truth of the matter has long since been buried under a soot-fall of verbiage...
...Since the Republicans, will pick up only 12 to 15 seats in the House and will probably not gain anything in the Sonate," Schlesinger said, "they will fall far short of what he opposition party should pick up in an off year...
Haberman would not say if he had any specific recommendations for changes at Harvard at the present time. "We are currently in the process of investigation, but when the commission convenes next February we expect to have a fall report ready...