Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picks. The carabinieri soon arrived. In the battle that followed, three of the squatters were killed, several others wounded. The police charged that the squatters started the fight, with gunfire and hand grenades; two carabinieri were seriously wounded. The carabinieri blamed the Communists, and the Communists, eager to make political capital from the peasants' discontent, promptly replied that all the Melissa casualties were indeed Red martyrs...
...Italian landowners who work their land themselves, or treat their tenants as fellow owners. But under Italy's widespread system of absentee ownership, too many masters of the land rent it out for a fixed fee to subcontractors; they in turn rent it out to tenants who must make them a profit...
State Prosecutor Enver Krzic, who knew that he would win his case before the trial started, eagerly drove home the point which Tito wanted to make with the Sarajevo performance. "Soviet leaders," he said, "in the struggle to subdue Yugoslavia, were forced to use these notorious spies and enemies of progress . . . [They] exploited these miserable people without a fatherland . . . because, in all Yugoslavia, they could not find Yugoslavs to do their dirty work...
...Laurence Olivier, arriving in New York to make his television debut, was saddened because many people in England had misinterpreted the role of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, currently being played in London by his wife, Vivien Leigh. The character is not a prostitute, Sir Laurence explained patiently. "After the initial tragedy that affected her life, in her subsequent misguided search for beauty and romance, she came to lead an immoral life; but there was no intention to suggest that it was in any way professional...
...week season, the Boston musicians, most of whom also play in the Boston "Pops" and at Tanglewood in the summer, get 49 paychecks a year from the symphony for 47 weeks of work. The size of the checks helps keep them happy too: first desk men make not less than $10,000, not including broadcasting and recording fees; no one gets less than $4,860 in salary, which is well above the A.F.M. scale...