Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she agreed to do a book, the publishers sent a girl ghost writer to Mrs. Caruso's Florentine drawing room in Manhattan. Caruso's grand piano, his 16th-Century Madonna and Mrs. Caruso's story were too much for the girl ghost: she kept weeping over her work for two weeks. Finally Mrs. Caruso said: "I decided to write the book myself. While I wrote I could smell the verbena just as though he were here. . . . Those failures [her two marriages since Caruso's death] were no one's fault. . . . Death had not ended...
...16th Nisei had been dishonorably discharged from the Army...
...Planes Came. With daylight came U.S. planes - 1,300 in direct support, others chopping at Nazi rear communications. Jülich fell to the Ninth Army - all but a 16th-Century citadel surrounded by a moat 20 feet deep and a wall 14 feet thick and 45 feet high. Next day the Ninth's 29th Division assaulted the cita del with 755 and flamethrowers. When the Yanks finally got in, they found a few German dead. The other defenders had run out, during the night, through a tunnel that led to the woods...
...test indicated pregnancy last March 24. The date of Mrs. Hunter's last menstrual period was Feb. 10. Everything proceeded as usual for three months. Then there was "apparent cessation of growth," until at six months Mrs. Hunter felt life for the first time. (Normal time for this: 16th to 18th week.) Fetal heartbeat was first detected in September. (Normal time for this would have been July...
...battle surged to the towering, 40-ft.-thick brown walls of Intramuros, the 16th-Century inner city. An observer who watched the first shells drive home growled: "Christ, 755 just bounce off that wall." Beightler mustered h's guns. In one hour, in the greatest land barrage of the Pacific war, 10,000 shells smashed into the wall and the city just beyond. Slowly the masonry crumbled and American troops forced their...