Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Local Alliance now numbers between 100 and 200 members, many of whom are senior citizens, most of whom are lifelong residents of the area. Many of them and citizens from neighboring towns plan to join the occupation. Others, who cannot afford to occupy, have donated their land for camping, parking and staging uses, as well as for use as medical, information, and media centers--even though they face the threat of intimidation and harassment by local and state authorities. They have promised to be a lifeline for the occupiers once they get onto the site, raising money and providing food...
...STORY, what there is of it, revolves around four peasant families who toil for the same landowner in the Lombardy section of Italy. Their homes, stables, most of their livestock, and the land they work belongs to the landowner, for which he gets two-thirds of their crops. The rest of the world barely exists for these people. The political unrest of the time goes by practically unnoticed--the families are touched by the outside world only twice during the year or so the film portrays, once when a newlywed couple journeys to nearby Milan where troops march a group...
...second case poses a larger constitutional question--Cambridge lawyers will challenge Harvard's right as a major land-owner to demand a larger council majority on zoning questions...
...Indians' lawsuit placed all land titles in question, causing a sharp drop in tax revenue and land values, a Mashpee selectman said at the time...
...come to the United States of America as successor of Peter and as a pilgrim of faith. It gives me great joy to be able to make this visit. And so, my esteem and affection go out to all the people of this land. I greet all Americans without distinction; I want to meet you and tell you all--men and women of all creeds and ethnic origins, children and youth, fathers and mothers, the sick and the elderly--that God loves you, that he has given you a dignity as human beings that is beyond compare. I want...