Word: lorenzo
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...Pepita y Lorenzo: Blondie and Dagwood...
...Above all, Rome, as a center of Italian rail communications, forms an integral link between northern and southern Italy. It was to interrupt this vital line of supplies for Axis armies in the south that U.S. bombers twice blasted Rome's most important railway centers, the San Lorenzo and Littorio yards...
...voice against warfare, more than once deplored destruction from the air. But never before has the full power of papal rhetoric been turned on a specific bombing. Last week, while the bombs fell four miles and more away, the Pope prayed in his private chapel. Later he visited San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, found it "in grandissimi parte" destroyed, though the altar and the tomb of Pius IX survived. Drawing upon his rich reservoir of sonorous prose, he wrote the Vicar General of Rome...
...letter said nothing of the military objectives successfully bombed, mentioned only San Lorenzo. Then the Holy Father suspended audiences for several days, gave permission for the terror-stricken to spend the night in the colonnades of St. Peter...
Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of St. Augustine cried out against a "tragically mistaken decision," predicted that "much of our national unity, much of the respect we enjoy abroad now lie, with San Lorenzo, in ruins...