Word: appia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustle of hopeful activity hummed up & down Petrarch', "fair land which Apennines cut in twain "' seas and Alps surround." After a worrisome winter drought, the cypress groves of Tuscany and the rocky pastures of the south were turning a promising green under welcome rains. Along the Via Appia, middle-class families spread picnic lunches of bread, salami and strong red wine. From Venice to Capri hotels and restaurants looked forward to a season of 2,000,000 tourists, bringing American dollars and British pounds. The springtime wave of foreigners already crowded the sidewalk cafes of Rome...
...commander in Italy, boasted that his planes had knocked out rail communication so completely that no through trains had moved from the Po Valley to the Gustav line since March 24; the Germans had to rely on truck transport, chiefly at night, over Highway No. 7 -the Via Appia-and Highway No. 6-Via Casilina...
Before the Allies now lay parallel valleys. Entrenched on the mountains commanding these valleys were the Germans, still in excellent positions to delay the Allied advance. Through the westernmost valley, before General Clark's Fifth Army, wound the Via Appia, most famous of all roads to Rome. Before the Eighth can think of Rome, it must hack up the Adriatic coast to Pescara...
...Fifth was on the route of the Via Appia, most famous of the ancients' great highways to Rome...