Word: mignano
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...Fletcher's latest murder mystery or Roseanne Connor's most recent family crisis. It is the fate of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the Beverly Hills, California, brothers awaiting a verdict on charges of murdering their parents. "One way or another, every day it comes up in conversation," says Rosalie Mignano, 29, a nail technician at the salon. "I've really come to care about them as people...
KATHLEEN T. MIGNANO...
Italian soldiers who had joined the Allies moved into positions in the Mignano area. They were veterans who had served in France, Russia, Africa, but they had had little chance to develop teamwork. They piled out of busses marked Roma O Morte (Rome or Death), went into the line noisily, clumsily, gave the enemy 36 hours' notice that an attack was brewing...
...from the Fifth. The Fifth Army's problem was not a ridge but a pass. Through a break in the mountains around Mignano, 15 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea, runs a main highway to Rome, known since ancient days as the Via Casilina. Entrenched on 3,000-ft. height overlooking the Mignano gate, the Germans had stalemated General Clark's weather-logged British and American troops for almost a month...
...Fifth, like the Eighth, laid down a barrage, the most concentrated of the Italian campaign. All one day 300 Allied planes shuttled between their south Italian runways and the narrow mountain sector around Mignano, gave the Germans a galling taste of nonstop bombing and strafing. At 5:30 p.m. the land guns opened up, did not rest during the night...
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