Word: siena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kesselring writes: "It was only to be expected that as the war went on the Italians would try to make things easier for themselves by ratting to the other side." Italian "treachery" notwithstanding, he claims and probably deserves credit for sparing such culturally rich towns as Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino, Siena, Padua, Ravenna and Venice from military destruction. He admits "the destruction of the wonderful [Florentine] bridges across the Arno." As for the famed monastery of Monte Cassino, Kesselring stoutly denies that the German armies ever put it to military...
...whose picnickers, barking dog and proud, weed-grown ruins form a landscape as gently charming as anyone could wish. Among Houston's 30 choices, which will be delivered after its new wing is completed next fall: the 15th century painting of St. Lucy Led to Her Martyrdom, by Siena's Bernardino Fungai...
...Flying Club's season centers around two big meets. One is the Great Barrington contest; the other is the Invatational Inter-collegiate Flying Meet held at Falmouth, Massachusetts each spring. This is where the HFC plays host to pilots from Brown, Siena, Williams, Yale, Dartmouth, R.P.I., and the University of Rhode Island. The club had to be satisfied with a first place in the cross-country competition last year as Williams took the team trophy...
...Friar Juniper's selflessness triumphing over the bloody tyrant Nicolaio, and causing him to lift his siege of the city of Viterbo in a sequence filled with fire and spectacle. The picture ends with Francis and his disciples going forth separately into the world to preach peace-to Siena, Florence, Arezzo, Pisa and Spoleto...
...Visitors are forbidden to lie on the floor." In Venice, they fed the pigeons in St. Mark's Square, drifted down the Grand Canal in gondolas, and pointed out to each other the palaces once lived in by Byron and Browning. They rolled through the hill towns of Siena, Perugia and Orvieto in air-conditioned motor coaches of the government's CIAT Travel Agency (Florence to Rome: $6.50), equipped with radios, lavatories, bars and pretty hostesses...