Word: nocella
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Drawing Ballots. Distribution day dawned brightly. Ente Sila workers had been up all night to complete the papers for the drawing. The villagers gathered in the square. A beribboned six-year-old girl dipped her hand into a box and drew out the first name: Vincenzo Nocella. But Nocella had not come to the meeting because he did not believe the land would ever be distributed. Patient, tired Ente Sila functionaries smiled. Then the child drew a plot for Nocella. The crowd was sharply attentive...
...good and less good zones. The best is an irrigable portion called Maestria because it needs skill to work it. The least desirable includes the land of San Francesco e Marucaro and some parts of Vallegrande. Then there are the middling lands, the Cuocino, partly dotted with olive groves. Nocella drew a poor San Francesco plot. A long sigh went through the crowd. The next name drew a middling plot. The crowd lost some of its tenseness...
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