Word: bolzano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three main roads to Rome last week two Italian Army trucks rolled south. They had come from Munich, with $10 million worth of art under their tarpaulins. At the Ducal Palace in the mountain city of Bolzano, the trucks halted and weary armed guards began unloading the crates. They would be safe there until a show to celebrate their return could be arranged at Rome...
Building the Bastion. Meanwhile, the Nazis went ahead with preparations for their last stand. In Bolzano and Klagenfurt concentrations of 55 troops were reported, and work was being rushed on fortifications. Hitler's own Berchtesgaden was said to be another strongpoint. According to the stories reaching neutral capitals, the mountains around the Nazi strongpoints now bristle with defense works, repair shops, arms and munition depots. The caves of the ancient salt mines around Königs-See have been converted into subterranean hangars and air-dromes; into factories making guns, planes and synthetic gasoline...
Before the week was out bombers flew all the way to Bolzano and cut the Brenner route there. Through that pass in the top of Italy crawled 85% of the coal, 95% of the oil from Germany to Italy. By week's end, daily raids had disrupted and tangled the whole network of communications in the 700-mile-long peninsula, hampering the movements of reinforcements, blocking the withdrawls of troops...
...British said: one of their Swordfish punctured the biggest Italian battleship; another torpedo hit the Bolzano (heavy cruiser) and a Skua's bomb hit a Condottieri (light) cruiser; fire from the Renown and the British cruisers damaged another heavy cruiser and two destroyers. Total: six strikes, which reduced Italy's serviceable battleships to two, her cruisers to 16, as against only one British ship struck, the cruiser Berwick, which lost seven men killed, nine injured when hit by two shells, but was still ready for action...
...tortoise would be some distance, however small, ahead. By the time Achilles reached that point, the tortoise would be a little ahead again. And so on to infinity -Achilles would never catch up. Wise & good men wrestled in vain with this prickly paradox until three 19th-Century mathematicians-Weierstrass, Bolzano and Cantor-demolished it by treating the mathematics of infinity realistically instead of mystically. They showed that an infinite class is no greater than some of its parts. The number of geometric points on a line a foot long is infinite. But the number of points on an inch...