Word: squatter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unless China gets what it wants in Ladakh, the Communists may enlarge their demands in other areas of the 2,500-mile border where China has "not up to now made any demand"; and 4) border peace and mutual confidence "are unattainable by other provisional measures." After asserting these squatter rights, Chou blandly declared that China is so big a country, and so sparsely settled in half of its area, that it would be "extremely ludicrous" to suspect that Peking would "encroach one inch upon foreign territory...
Last week, on Youlou's orders, 300 police moved in on the overcrowded squatter colony, tried for two hours to persuade the Matswanists to leave peacefully, then attacked them with clubs and tear gas. Gradually, as they fell back, about 200 of the Matswanists were pinned against a wall, and would not move. The cops grabbed them one by one and hauled them away in trucks. But when they reached the rear ranks of the crowd, police saw a melancholy sight: 36 Matswanists, including one woman and a child, had been pressed back, temporarily blinded by the tear...
...soon realizes what a fool he has been: Luisa is pregnant, and they have nowhere to go. In desperation, Natale decides to build one of the "abusive dwellings"-one-room squatter shacks-that spring up overnight on empty lots in Rome, and may not legally be torn down if they have a door and a roof by the time the police arrive in the morning. The rest of the picture describes the young couple's struggle to acquire by criminal conspiracy what De Sica obviously feels to be theirs by natural right: a roof over their heads...
...recent years, betting against the devil's-red-and-blue of Calumet Farm has proved a losing business. With Plain Ben Jones and his son Jimmy to handle her horses, Calumet Owner Mrs. Gene Markey can practically claim squatter's rights on the special Derby winner's circle at Churchill Downs...
...British religious organization called Toc H, the organizer of the Winant Volunteers- a U.S. group of college-age boys and girls who pay their way each year to work among the poor in London's slums-Padre Clayton knew how to get what he wanted. He first established squatter's rights to the shell of All Hallows by moving in a token supply of building materials, then promised to get the church rebuilt without drawing on Britain's scant supplies...