Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers crowded into an abandoned barracks on Italian estate. One of them (Hollywood's Doris Dowling) slogs into the rice paddies and finds redemption in hard work and the love of an army sergeant (Raf Vallone). The other (Vittorio Gassmann) spends his time chasing Silvana and plotting to steal the rice harvest. Along the way is a good deal of earthy violence: Silvana gets birched on a roadside ; Doris is nearly mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook during a fight in a butcher shop. Director Giuseppe de Santis gets...
Norther. In El Paso, Police Chief W. C. Woolverton sighed and announced that he was adding policemen to the force: "Cooler weather always brings more crime. People seem to eat more, wear more and steal more...
...nimble farce with a sound underpinning of character and comment. Though a few cuts below such blue-ribbon British comedies as Tight Little Island and Passport to Pimlico, it offers the rare inducement of watching two of Britain's best comics-Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford-as they steal scenes from each other...
...Formosa became a part of the Chinese Empire. Chinese settlers wrested control of the best land from the aborigines. This land steal aroused in the aborigines a hatred so implacable that even after World War I a traveler reported of the headhunters: "Mongolian [Chinese] heads are preferred, though those of other tribesmen, of domesticated natives or of Japanese are esteemed...
...Soviet broadcast in Swedish reported that U.S. troops in Sweden have been issued a Swedish phrase book to teach G.I.s how to steal and plunder. "We cite some of the sentences which the American soldiers in Sweden will have to know," said the broadcaster. " 'Draw a map for me.' As the authors of the dictionary obviously can envisage the surprised face of the Swede they add: 'I am an American.' As they can take it for granted that in spite of this, the Swede refuses to comply, the following sentence is recommended: 'Hand over your...