Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied strategists saw it, the Germans would fall back to the Arno River as soon as they lost two seaports-Leghorn on the west coast, Ancona on the east. Once the river was passed in their delaying action, the Germans would drop back another 20 miles to the fortified Gothic Line...
...Same. There was no evidence last week that Kesselring had any reason to change his opinion of Allied tactics. By now the Germans had lost 32,000 prisoners from 24 different divisions. Two-thirds of Italy was now in Allied hands and the hot, dusty retreat was approaching the "Gothic Line" of prepared defense works...
...point close to Caen, British artillery poured 10,000 shells last week. But through the smoke that enveloped Caen British officers might still be able to pick out vestiges of the 1,000-year-old Romanesque towers and Gothic spires that once thrust up over the city. If so, they were probably the last men who would ever see them. For the architectural treasures of the city, which Henry Adams (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres) once called a "Romanesque Mecca," seemed doomed. Among them were...
...exquisitely spired Gothic church of St. Pierre, built in 1308. St. Pierre's spire stood unscathed through the bombardment of Caen in 1563, during the Wars of Religion...
...word city hall usually evokes visions of a dingy interior with a minimum of window space and a maximum of official smell behind a façade that may combine the styles of the Taj Mahal, the Erechtheum and Ralph Adams Cram Gothic. But when Fresno (Calif.) citizens planned their city hall they decided to break with U.S. tradition. They decided that a city hall has no need of domes, pillars, Corinthian capitals or musty interiors copied from Roman baths. Last week U.S. architects were hailing the result of Fresno's decision...