Word: gothically
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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...
...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...
...Japanese, cherry blossoms are the "symbols of the supreme beauty of sacrifice." The Japanese, he declares, never feel at home in "the ugly and incongruous West ern chapel," or "even in a fine Gothic church." He recommends that future Christian churches in Japan be built in "the shrine form of architecture, with its clean lines and austere beauty." He would even have the churches include the Buddhist torn (ceremonial gateway). The churches should not stand on streets, but be "hidden in groves of trees with torn and mossy stone steps, fountains of water, and old flowering shrubs." He also...