Word: pisa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as carefully, but less patiently, avoiding Pisa, but patience was running out (see ART). Yanks of General Mark Clark's Fifth Army were already in the southern part of the town divided by the Arno River. Bowing toward them was the famous eight-story tower and clear in Allied glasses were the figures of German spotters using it for observation...
Italy's famed Leaning Tower of Pisa was last week in danger of being blown to marble bits. The Germans were reported using it as an artillery observation post. Unlike the treasure-strewn city of Florence, 49 miles away, Pisa had not been declared an open city. Other jeopardized treasures of Pisa, beside the 179-foot tower begun in 1174, included...
...Allied offensive in Italy rolled up toward the next phase of the campaign. Within 24 hours two of the best ports in northern Italy-Leghorn and Ancona-were captured. Five days later the Allies were at the Arno River, had fought in the streets of Pisa, stood only twelve miles from Florence. Only these two cities remained before the last grand assault of the Battle of Italy could be begun-the attack on the German Gothic Line in the high Appenines...
North of Mark Clark there was still Pisa, of the tower that "leans like a lily in the wind . . . strange as the horn of a unicorn," and north of Lieut. General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army there was still Florence, repository of Renaissance art, which the Germans had declared an open city. When they were captured, the Arno would cease to be a barrier. General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander would be ready to regroup his forces, and the ultimate thrust would get under...
Born. To Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 31, svelte contralto of the Metropolitan Opera and first American in 22 years to sing the exacting role of Philistine Temptress Delilah (in Samson and Delilah); and Walter Szurovy, 33, Hungarian stage and screen actor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Nicolas Vincent. Weight...