Word: pisa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied strafing and bombing planes were in the Arno River valley, behind which the Germans have been building the "Gothic Line" (see map). Its outposts were reportedly at Pisa, Florence, and Rimini. However, Allied sources revealed that an additional defense in depth had been constructed farther north-from Marina di Carrara, some 30 miles above Pisa, eastward to a point 18 miles above Florence...
...belongs in the tradition of the scientific seers, which includes Galileo watching the swing of a lamp in the Cathedral of Pisa and deducing from it the law of the pendulum, and Isaac Newton watching the fall of an apple and deducing from it the law of gravity. For thousands of years men looked at the cryptogamic mold called Penicillium notatum, but Dr. Fleming was the first to see its cryptic meaning. His discernment, restoring to science the creative vision which it has sometimes been held to lack, also restored health to millions of men living and unborn...
Since February, destruction on the railroads has spread over an area 150 miles wide, from Rome to Pisa on the east coast, from Pescara to Rimini on the west. Uncle Joe's mediums and fighter bombers have smashed bridges, tunnels and tracks at scores, even hundreds, of places, and the fighters have gone back to shoot up repair crews...
...Apennines, continued straight up Italy like a backbone. Main trunk lines, perforce, trailed along the two coasts of the Italian boot and were vulnerable to air attack. For days Allied bombers had pounded Italian railways south of Naples, had blasted freightcars in clogged yards as far north as Pisa. This was strategic bombing designed to hamstring Axis troops in the south...
...dresses up in the uniform of a guardsman and tries, hoping he will fail, to cuckold himself. The demands of this ticklish situation (used by M.G.M. with minor changes) are simply beyond the histrionic capacities of the picture's two principals: wholesome, husky Risöe (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, young (28) Metropolitan Opera demidiva, and dimpled, impassive Nelson Eddy, 40, who looks like a Midwest swimming coach...