Word: bolognas
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...G.Ls in the front struggled patiently with the tenacious Ger mans. The Americans fell back before a counterattack, riposted to regain lost ground and more. By week's end, Raticosa Pass was captured, the Fifth was over the crest of the mountains, could at last look down at Bologna 20 miles away...
Thus TIME Correspondent Tom Durrance described a drive through Futa Pass, following Fifth Army troops driving downhill to Bologna...
...capture of Rimini was no longer important. The Fifth Army in the center, having fought its way across the Apennines in ten days of as rough fighting as any at Cassino, had really wrecked the Line. From the foothills above Bologna they were only 80 miles across the plain from Verona and Padua. The German troops retiring from Rimini, on the eastern end of the Gothic Line, and those holding the western end of the Line near La Spezia now had to race northward or be cut off, for Verona and Padua are their only ways...
...bearing the bitterness of decades one day farther up the road. The soldiers were wiry and brown with the sun. Their rifles were old, their clothes threadbare. Each of them carried two grenades tucked in a belt about his neck and a long blue stocking inflated like an enormous bologna roll. The blue stocking was stuffed with dry rice kernels, the only iron rations the Chinese soldier gets...
...with Fascism began in 1922, when he first defied a request to play Giovinezza at Milan's La Scala Opera House. When the Fascists started to agitate for control of La Scala's policies in 1929, Toscanini resigned as director. Two years later, at a concert in Bologna, the peppery little maestro again refused to conduct Giovinezza, saying publicly that, in his opinion, it was not music at all. After the concert a Fascist mob beat him up, Fascist authorities temporarily confiscated his passport, and the Fascist Party surrounded his Milan home with carabinieri. He was under incessant...