Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North of Mark Clark there was still Pisa, of the tower that "leans like a lily in the wind . . . strange as the horn of a unicorn," and north of Lieut. General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army there was still Florence, repository of Renaissance art, which the Germans had declared an open city. When they were captured, the Arno would cease to be a barrier. General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander would be ready to regroup his forces, and the ultimate thrust would get under...
...from the Kaiser's Germany with a message for Ireland's underground rebels. A countrywoman spied him sneaking along the beach, notified the constabulary. Sergeant O'Reilly hurried to the scene, made the arrest that sent Sir Roger to a traitor's hanging in the Tower of London...
...field soldier, General "Ike" slept in a tent with a cot and bedroll. Most of the time he was in danger areas; twice German barrages fell in districts he had just left. Once a flak tower from which he had been observing U.S. artillery fire took hits from 88-mm. guns just after he had climbed down...
State Trooper G. F. Randall, alone inside a concrete building beside the steel radio tower of the West Virginia State Police got up to close a window against the wind, and saw the spiral-shaped cone sweeping over the hill toward him. "As it got closer I could see it was filled with wood, trees and outhouses. It seemed to be coming directly toward me. I was so damned interested I never moved...
...quarrel completely believable. Lynn Carter makes an attractive pick-up girl and injects a much-needed note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen in many a straw-hat season...