Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through a Sicilian mountain valley 400 workers and peasants were making their way to a May Day celebration. They carried red flags and sang Communist songs. At a crossroad shots rang out. According to the most coherent accounts, they were fired from machine guns by men on horseback. Ten peasants (including one woman) were killed, more than 30 injured. Next day, in the Italian Constituent Assembly, the battle was resumed...
Interior Minister Mario Scelba (Christian Democrat) reported to his fellow assemblymen that, so far as the police could determine, the Sicilian shooting was nonpolitical. The valley in which it occurred was notoriously infested by bandits. Sicilian Communist Deputy Girolamo Licausi disagreed. He charged that the Maffia (Sicily's ancient, bloody secret society) had perpetrated the attack, in cahoots with monarchists and the rightist Uomo Qualunque Party...
...believe your paper is hurting Valley City, and that you should dispose of it to someone with a different slant on major issues; that in event you decline to sell it, another daily paper should be started...
Anticoli and Roviano are 40 kilometers from Rome. They are only a stone's throw apart, and their citizens spent most of the Middle Ages throwing stones and everything else available at each other, as they fought for possession of the Aniene Valley...
...Valley City is a conservative little North Dakota town (pop. 6,000) with a leftist little newspaper. In its editorials the daily Times-Record has hailed Henry Wallace, railed against the Truman Doctrine, the "big corporations" and "the campaign of vilification" against Russia. Angry businessmen of Valley City put it up to the publisher: either he would right his leftist policy, or they would put him out of business. Among the complainers were some who had lent him the money to buy the paper two years...