Word: precut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cemetery in the town of Albiano Magra (pop. 1,500), 60 miles southeast of Genoa, was filled to capacity, and in order to make space the town fathers ordered the construction of a large concrete wall with precut niches to fit average-length coffins. The Socialist-Communist city planners thought they solved the problem neatly, but when some coffins had to be shaved at both ends because their occupants were too long for their resting place, Christian Democrats angrily accused the Marxists of tampering with the dead "just as you trim the budget...