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Word: marcelli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ploughmen, Yes. Leather-skinned Fausto Marcelli is a ploughman. He has eleven children, born with annual regularity over eleven years. Fausto likes big families-"It's good to have lots of workers"-but there has to be work to do. "Our plot at Frosinone is pretty good earth, but I'd need a lot more to feed 13 people. They have told me that the earth in Argentina is good-as black as a pair of new boots"-and Fausto rubs together his calloused, white-knuckled fingers as if feeling the black earth there in his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Hopes | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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