Word: pesaro
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Eighteen months ago, she graduated from the caramel stage with a concert debut in her home town of Pesaro, began touring Italy, Scandinavia and Spain. This winter, Ettore Verna, a friend of her father's conservatory days, now teaching singing in Manhattan, arranged for Anna's first trip...
...blow was coming. Allied patrols had probed his line unceasingly for six weeks. But he did not know where the main weight would fall. As in the past, the Eighth Army began slowly (as far back as Aug. 26), grinding out small gains across the Metauro River south of Pesaro on the Adriatic...
...Harold Alexander shifted his greatest strength to the eastern end of the line, struck with such force that Kesselring realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their way ten miles into Pesaro, at the mouth of the Foglia River. Tough, fanatical Nazis of the ist Parachute Division, who had shown at Cassino that they knew how to fight, showed at Pesaro that they had not forgotten...
...through eight long years of rumors that he was bluffing and might be expected to devalue any day. To frosty bankers it must eternally seem like bluffing when a fire-eating politician shouts at the top of his lungs, screams in headlines and has cut into a monument at Pesaro: "We will defend the lira to the last breath, to the last drop of blood...
...major moves by which Benito Mussolini jacked his country above the status of a second-class power was to put the lira, previously a wobbly joke currency, squarely on gold (TIME, Jan. 2, 1928). Soon at Pesaro the Lira Monument was reared, cut deep with II Duce's promise to defend the gold lira to the last drop of Italian blood. Since then nothing has occurred to convince the Dictator that any other statesman who inflates, debases or trifles with currency values is not dead wrong. Last week with U. S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Baldwin and Japanese...