Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn aside from what they have to do, nor think that criticism excuses inaction . . . and let them believe in mankind and its future, for there is good as well as evil, and the man who tries to work for the good, believing in its eventual victory, while he may suffer setback and even disaster, will never know defeat...
...past year De Gasperi has been pushing a comprehensive land reform act through Parliament. Its core: buy out large landholdings, cut them into small plots (about 15 acres), help the peasantry to buy and cultivate them. The political, financial, administrative and technical difficulties are staggering. For example, some localities suffer now from too much fragmentation of land ownership; in others, the land must first have irrigation, fertilizers, etc. The slowness of the government program led last fall and spring to peasant seizures of land, especially in southern Italy, where conditions are most depressing. Blood was shed, and the Communists shouted...
...Princes a few minutes later but Mrs. Posket, in search of the boy's godfather. She wants to persuade him to seal his lips on the date of the christening (which would reveal her own age). As night be suspected, the situation is fruitful; the play does not suffer from a slow plot...
Both Lehman and Lynch could suffer from the Democratic split on the New York City ballot, where two Democrats and one Republican are running to fill former Mayor O'Dwyer's unexpired term. City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, acting mayor since O'Dwyer resigned two months ago, was denied the Democratic nomination and surprised everyone by running as an independent. The Democrats chose instead Judge Ferdinand-Pecora, while the G.O.P. named State Industrial Commissioner Edward Corsi...
Anyone not meeting the pay day commitment in compulsory club dues by tomorrow will be charged fifty cents extra for each week the levy in overdue for the next three weeks. Beyond the third week all delinquents will suffer the additional penalty of losing honor privileges and being required to pay the proctors hired to supervise their examinations...