Word: pisa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what happened to Pound when the war ended is detailed and grim. He was arrested by two small-time crooks who had learned that there was a 500,000-lira reward for his capture. Handcuffed to an accused murderer, he was taken by Jeep to a military jail near Pisa. There, at the age of 60, he was kept like an animal in an outdoor cage, exposed to all weathers, for more than six months. He was sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Washington, D.C. During his ordeal, Pound fought off madness and suicide by writing some...
...sensitivity, a return to basic sanity." Bailiwick's bewildering variety of candles also helps bring in customers. In addition to the plain-Jane 25? blackout specials, the store sells candles shaped like dodo birds, penguins, onions, eggs, baskets of blueberries, footballs and, at $40, the leaning tower of Pisa...
Madame de La Tour du Pin died at 83 in Pisa with her autobiography almost 40 years in arrears. Still, the self-portrait is complete. It reveals a woman who took the worst blows a disorienting world had to offer (even by today's high standards of disorder) and remained amused, serene and whole...
...latter days of its existence, the tower got rather grandiose ideas and started to assume the same posture as its friend in Pisa. The Salemites, not so tolerant or brave as the Pisans, had the poor old thing razed, and its tenants went to Post's Woods to live, from where at dusk Charles often "fled in terror of mysterious presences...