Word: grappa
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...small (pop. 11,774) town of Bassano del Grappa, at the foot of the Venetian Alps, Italian art lovers were paying their respects last week to a long-neglected figure of the Renaissance. His name was Jacopo da Ponte, and he lived from about 1515 to 1592, painting frescoes and altar pieces for palazzi and churches. As "Jacopo Bassano," he was once ranked with such contemporary greats as Titian and Tintoretto. But by later generations his fame had clouded, and he was considered just a gifted but uneven craftsman of the Venetian School. The exhibit in Bassano's Civic...
...familiar with the saxophone until rather late in life, at seventeen to be exact, and perhaps as a result he never really became reconciled to it. Whatever the reason, as in the case of other commodities of a rank or distasteful appearance like Limburger cheese, pickled snails, or Italian grappa, his music has a strong and peculiar attraction for a certain select few who accept nothing else as a substitute...
...getting drunk on grappa manufactured in stills made from wrecked airplane parts; reading with vacant eyes the labels on K-ration tins or even German propaganda leaflets, just to be reading...
Lieut. Francis Xavier Buckley, a carrot-thatched engineer from Philadelphia, was tooling his jeep northward from Terracina along the coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...Morgan-Harjes ambulance unit. His section was in the big attack around Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917. After the ambulance section broke up, he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected because of defective eyesight. He went to Italy, drove an ambulance up and down Mt. Grappa during the height of the Austrian drive. He returned to America in July, 1918, was immediately enlisted in the Army ambulance, received training and was sent back to France, but never had any active service with our own forces...