Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British and U.S. bombers coursing over the Mediterranean last week outlined the next Allied objective. If the pattern of the bombings meant anything, it was to be a two-part objective: the island of Sicily and, just across the Strait of Messina, the southern toe of Italy...
...points the Axis air defenses stiffened last week, although as a whole they were noticeably weak. There were unconfirmed reports that the Luftwaffe had shifted its western Mediterranean air command from Sicily to northern Italy. But it still had defensive fighters on the island and on the mainland toe; it still sent bombers against Malta, Pantelleria and Allied shipping...
...Side Show. Whether Sicily and Italy's heel & toe fall to air siege, to air and amphibious invasion or by early Italian surrender, the military benefits will be greater than has often been realized, and they must have been pondered by Winston Churchill and General Marshall when they visited North Africa. Sardinia and Corsica could not long hold out, might not even try to do so. From the southernmost tip of Italy, the Adriatic and the western entry to the Balkans would be open to Allied air domination. Allied air fleets could turn upon the rest of Italy, upon...
...course of history by Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Spaniards, Turks and Italians, a stepping-stone from Africa to Europe and a vital traffic control on one of the sea's busiest highways, was in Allied hands. It was a stone under Mussolini's Italian boot. His toe is certain to be tromped on. His heel is in hot water, his bottom fair game for a pincers movement...
...danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project emotion that bowls over even the uninitiates in the audience. Balleto manes may discuss the superb qualities of her sustained Arabesques (balancing on one toe) and battements de gages (kicks from a tiptoe position), but even the man from the street can tell that Markova is a sensation in tights...