Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ploughmen, Yes. Leather-skinned Fausto Marcelli is a ploughman. He has eleven children, born with annual regularity over eleven years. Fausto likes big families-"It's good to have lots of workers"-but there has to be work to do. "Our plot at Frosinone is pretty good earth, but I'd need a lot more to feed 13 people. They have told me that the earth in Argentina is good-as black as a pair of new boots"-and Fausto rubs together his calloused, white-knuckled fingers as if feeling the black earth there in his hands...
...Yes, it was true, Chiropractor Alva B. Scott admitted with dignity, he had originated (and practiced) a new healing art he chose to call "aetheronics." It cured diseases by remote control. What was more, he had witnesses...
...plump, balding, kindly looking little man. He seemed dumfounded one day last October to find reporters outside his $35-a-month apartment in Queens. Was he Gerhart Eisler? Yes, yes, he was. Well-he had just been accused of being the No. I U.S. Communist, the Brain, the big tap on the wire to Moscow. How about...
...Council majority pointed to the fact that 60 percent of the resident population of the College had voted and that most of the residents favored adoption of the new document. They emphasized that only the poor turnout at Dudley Commuters center -- whose 47 voters nevertheless registered a unanimous "yes"--and the large numbers of unavailable non-residents kept the favorable proportions of the vote from appearing in expected numbers...
...preliminary activity. . . . If portal-to-portal compensation is granted, then the employer will be entitled to keep track of and deduct short periods spent in personal pursuits." Asked Judge Picard: "You think we might do an ultimate injustice to the worker by granting portal-to-portal compensation?" Answered Sonnett: "Yes. . . . On the facts of this case the play is not worth the candle...