Word: tirolean
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Blue Hills of Austria. Everything-backward environment, shabby heredity, dingy ambitions, neurotic sensitivity- prepared Hitler for his future role. But the beginnings of the future scourge of mankind were bucolic, even idyllic. Hitler was born (1889) at Braunau in Austria-Hungary, among the blue foothills of the Tirolean redoubt...
Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, working the Adriatic coast, captured Ferrara and Padua, "the city of millionaires." With the 56th (London) Division in the van they entered historic Venice. Other units sped on to block the Udine and Belluno escape routes through the Tirolean Alps...
...size, in the long military experience of its leader and the great number of its troops, it dwarfs the forces of such historic guerrillas as the Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer, the Philippines' Emilio Aguinaldo, and Mexico's Francisco "Pancho" ("I'll use the whole ocean to gargle") Villa...
...then the organ, and finally began to explore the possibilities of the harpsichord and the clavichord. To combine her three interests of mountain climbing, skiing and music, this dark-eyed, energetic young woman carries a portable clavichord on her back on Austrian outings. This summer, be nighted at a Tirolean inn, Yella Pessl met Karl Maendler. When he heard who Miss Pessl was, Herr Maendler vowed he would build her a famous harpsichord, set to work immediately on his return to Munich. Another summer's adventure occurred when she played at Salzburg for Austria's President Wilhelm Miklas...
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