Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late, great Eleutherios Venizelos was an astute politician and a tower of antiroyalist strength. His son, Sophocles, assumed that he had his father's talents. Last week young Venizelos made his first major bid for power, and lost...
...Thursday night the Resistance forces held not only the islands of Saint-Louis and La Cite, but the Hotel de Ville, the Palais de Justice, the mairies of all arrondissements and the suburbs of Boulogne, Issy and Chatillon. The Germans held a large circular area bounded by the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides, the Gare du Quai-d'Orsay, the Place de la Concorde, the Madeleine and the Grand Palais. They also had strong points at the Gare d'Austerlitz, the Gare du Nord and the Porte d'Orleans. What was holding up the column of General Leclerc...
...most celebrated Gothic monument in Christendom had survived four years of German conquest and, last week, the even greater dangers of liberation. After six German snipers had been driven from its north tower, Chartres Cathedral was found to be almost untouched...
Allied inspectors reported a gargoyle missing, one statue broken, one arch destroyed. The battle with the snipers had left little mark on the taller Gothic north tower, because the U.S. troops were careful to attack only with small arms. The plainer Romanesque south tower likewise showed only a little bullet chipping. Priests who ushered an A.P. correspondent around pointed out the slight damage to the interior-a few windows broken in the south transept, a few supports shattered behind the high altar. The glorious blue glass of Chartres was nowhere to be seen. But, said a priest: "At the start...
...factory went on holiday the 17th of June. I didn't want my holiday that week so I went on working. Alerts were steady and we were taking spells on the aircraft-spotting tower. Well, at one particular imminent-danger warning I was on the tower and over a flying bomb came. She missed and fell and I thought, "Christ, right smack on Hillford Garden,"-that's where we live. So when the imminent passed I went to the gate and got on the phone to a neighbor and there was no answer. Just then a lorry pulled...