Word: tiber
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...example, last week John Hersey flew in over the Tiber in a B-26 Marauder, had practically a front row seat for the bombing of Rome. Had our new radio program been on the air that day we could have let you hear his whole eye-witness story that very afternoon...
...summer sun, climbing toward warm noon, had started the heat waves dancing from the brown Tiber, from the seven ancient hills, from the great stone piazza before St. Peter's, from the dusty brick and weathered marble of the Colosseum and the Forum. Now out of that sun came the sound and the sight Rome had long been spared: the drone of a hostile air fleet, the wings of hostile bombers...
...African bases 350 miles away, and the mediums, probably striking from newly won fields on Sicily turned south again, they gave side attention to another railway yard, several airdromes. Among other targets available for later raids: power plants built close to religious and cultural shrines; army barracks along the Tiber; aircraft, chemical and rayon factories on the city's outskirts...
Even the little omens of Minister Matsuoka's trip were discouraging. In Rome, Il Duce presented him with a glossy new motor launch. Minister Matsuoka planned a sunny maiden voyage down the rolling Tiber. But that day it rained...
...Vatican and the Quirinal, divided by the Tiber River, are linked together by peace and by a common religion of their fathers and ancestors. The Tiber waves have overthrown and sunk the unhappy past so that on the Tiber shores olive branches are now blossoming out. Today the hand of a Roman Pope is lifted for the first time after several decades to bless [this place] as a mark of peace; Italy looks on and exults; the Catholic world looks on and exults; and even the two Princes of the Apostles,* sitting at the en trance of this royal palace...