Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was always the sea on the flanks: the Allies could still use the Tyrrhenian or Adriatic for amphibious bypasses of the Gothic Line. The Germans saw the possibility. A DNB broadcaster told the Herrenvolk: there are concentrations of Allied landing craft "in the area of several embarkation points...
...Allied Commander General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander might regroup, force the Arno as he did the Rapido. There would still lie ahead the mountains and pillboxes of the Gothic Line...
...Here is your first eleventh-century church! . . . Serious and simple to excess! is it not? Young people rarely enjoy it. They prefer the Gothic. ... No doubt they are right, since they are young: but men and women who have lived long and are tired, who want rest . . . feel this repose and self-restraint as they feel nothing else. The quiet strength of these curved lines, the solid support of these heavy columns, the moderate proportions, even the modified lights, the absence of display, of effort, of self-consciousness, satisfy them as no other art does. They come back...
...monuments or delays notwithstanding, Operation Mallory Major had already begun the attack on the Gothic Line-the last important German defense position in Italy along the natural fortifications of the Apennines...
General Cannon had said something like that of the Operation Strangle. Observers who charged his estimate off to an airman's optimism later saw it justified. This time Uncle Joe had promised that the Germans in the Gothic Line would be kept cut off from supplies...