Word: leghorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressured enlisted men into joining an organization called the Fellowship of U.S.-British Comrades (dues: $4 a year), which had done nothing so far but throw one party for lieutenant colonels and above, ¶ He insisted on so much chicken-in general and saluting in particular that Leghorn G.I.s had nicknamed their main street "Bent Arm Boulevard." ¶ He maintained a Disciplinary Training Camp at Pisa, where G.I. prisoners "get the sweatbox for making a wrong turn. [It] is full of delightful [punishment] routine like cleaning a mess kit with a needle, or walking for hours squatting on the hams...
...going to blow a loud whistle on Lieut. General John C. H. Lee," wrote Scripps-Howard's roving Columnist Robert Ruark from Leghorn, Italy last week. "I hope my beefs reach the eyes of General Lee's bossman, Ike Eisenhower, and I hope furthermore that the General gets a royal eating-out.* He's got one coming...
...John C. H. Lee hitched up his belt smoothed his shirtfront, braced his shoulders and prepared yesterday to face an investigation of his command at Leghorn, Italy, after charges of varied abuses by a newspaperman...
...song caught on rapidly, and was a favorite in hot spots from Naples to Leghorn by the time Burrier left Italy in 1948. Back in Boston Burrier had a recording made by Preston Sandiford, a Negro pianist, which caught the attention of Wright Briggs, a pianist of Raykov's orchestra...
...cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo's capitalist Venice. The Communists hold Leghorn, where Shelley spent some of his waning days, and Galileo's Pisa, and Parma, famous for violets and Toscanini...