Word: bolsena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally the enemy turned, like a harried animal, to snap at his pursuers. On lateral Highway 74, from the Tyrrhenian coast to Lake Bolsena, the Germans held a line for three days until it was cracked in three places by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Grosseto, opposite Elba (see below), fell to the Fifth. With it went a major military airfield about 70 miles from Florence. In 38 days the Fifth had advanced almost 150 miles...
When Mother Earth's skin creeps, it usually creeps all over. Observatories all over the world reported that their seismographs had kicked up. In the California coast range, an earthquake woke sleepers. In South Africa's rich Rand, 25 tremors sent natives running for the countryside. Bolsena, near Rome, felt four shocks, and Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras all reported quakes...