Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Albert Kesselring had been pushed back to the Arno virtually throughout its length. But at many points he had not been pushed beyond the river -an important distinction. Eighth Army positions were open to harassing mortar and artillery fire from isolated German pockets on the south bank and from the high ground of the Prato Magno in the great bend of the Arno, southeast of Florence. If the situation was bad for Kesselring, it was also uncomfortable for General Sir Harold Alexander...
...Sadistic . . . Wanton." Allied headquarters roundly denounced the Germans for wrecking five of the six bridges across the Arno, called the "wanton destruction" another example of "Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's order to his troops to carry out demolitions with sadistic imagination." The enemy "has seen fit to use it [Florence] for his military traffic. . . . His paratroops are posted along the northern bank of the Arno within city limits. ... It is clear that the enemy intends to oppose the crossing of the Arno on both sides of the city, which remains in no man's land...
...Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, commander in Italy, and Colonel General Sachs, head of the Army's counter-espionage department, had been arrested...
...began as an insurance salesman's teaser. Its publisher, lean, lively Glenn Burrs, was once a saxophonist of small distinction from Dixon, Ill. In 1933 he began selling insurance on the side and talked his partner Albert Lipschultz into financing a small throwaway sheet of musical chitchat for their dance band clients. The venture was a net loss, and Lipschultz finally sold out to Burrs...
...France Welles experienced a sensation of general expectancy. President Albert Lebrun seemed to have lost his memory. From ex-Premiers Blum and Herriot, Welles derived only the feeling that France's days were numbered. After his visit to Blum, Welles received 3,000 insulting letters from Frenchmen who resented his calling...