Word: vittoria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Father Finn had qualms about his two-hour concert of classic sacred music (Palestrina, Vittoria, Brahms, Mendelssohn); he thought it might be "a little on the gay side." To rehearse the sisters he had to modify the hardy rehearsal technique he had developed during 40 years with boys' choirs (stretching the singers out on table and piano tops for breathing exercises): "Of course, in the case of the sisters that just isn't done. . . . [They] are dedicated to an unworldly life. No Delilah business, you know...
...center of the divisional line, two groups of tanks came out of the hills, reached and crossed the Gela-Vittoria road, shot up some amphibious trucks, lobbed shells over divisional headquarters toward the shore 800 yards from the tanks. The defending units had no infantry, no antitank guns to stop the tanks. There was only artillery - 105-mm. howitzers, designed for other work-and Bofors anti-aircraft guns...
...crashed through an olive tree before he hit the ground, cracking a rib, wrenching a knee, skinning his knuckles. His tired old secondhand portable typewriter got to earth in a parachute bundle. Thompson found it, hid it behind a stone wall. But by the time the paratroops had taken Vittoria, someone had stolen his portable...
Bataan to Vittoria. I.N.S.'s ace, steady Clark Lee, who covered Bataan and the Solomons for A.P., went in with an amphibian task force. When the beachhead was made, he joined seven U.S. soldiers in two jeeps and entered Vittoria. They were somewhat premature. Two German armored cars surprised the Americans in a garage. Lee led his party out the back way. The armored cars caught up with them and killed a sergeant, but Lee and the rest finally made the U.S. lines...
...Naples bubbled joyously one day last week. Marshal Rodolfo Graziani's "Terribili" legions in Libya had turned terribly on their British attackers and terribly smashed them to bits. They had taken 50,000-100,000-150,000 prisoners. They were marching triumphantly eastward again along their Via Vittoria (Victory Road) to Sidi Barrani in Egypt. Roman history had been made...