Word: tilling
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...Communist newspaper, Unita, called upon Italians to demonstrate. To Colosseum Square marched 10,000 men & women. While red flags flapped from the walls that had once looked down on other gladiators. Socialist, Actionist and Communist orators shouted: "The monarchy must fall! We will not leave the streets till a republic is proclaimed...
...three years India had been in a state of suspended political animation. Some 3,000 nationalists were in jail,* their pleas for Indian independence silenced by the fiat of the British Raj that constitutional reform must wait till the war is won. Three years after Sir Stafford Cripps's mission, Hindus (the Congress party) and Moslems (the Moslem League) were still unable to agree on his plan for postwar Dominion status. They were also unable to agree with one another. But last week India was stirring uneasily...
...hear you are thinking of getting married to one of the local girls near where you are stationed. When I say thinking I am half afraid that may be just the thing you have not done. ... In the first place, the girl up till a very short while ago was one of our enemies. ... I know that we ought not to bear grudges . . . but you may find yourself living [in England] next door to someone whose husband or son was killed in Italy...
...might have been inspired, and a story told, through letting an audience watch an animated oil painting change before its eyes. Even when murder is committed in the same room with the picture, you are not allowed to see red paint sweating forth on the fingers; the camera waits till the crime is complete, then comes back and finds it there. Reverence for literature often goes hand in hand with this singular lack of instinct for cinematic storytelling...
...Amarillo: "Give me any kind of night work. It's the evenings that get me. I want to work till I'm so tired I'll just drop...