Word: civitavecchia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the coast, the wounds of the war stood out like massive scars. Civitavecchia (the port for Rome) appeared to have been "eaten and regurgitated by mastodons." Italian squalor was worsened by the morbid excitement it seemed to arouse in visiting foreigners, who, perhaps "a little stifled by ... civilization . . . when they saw a [place] that had been smashed into temporary primitiveness" felt an animal instinct "to leap into it, as though into a bath...
...that is "one of the most distinguished . . . of the good old Continent." In Germany, the Old School was named Dachau and Buchenwald; in Spain, it was Seville (Koestler was imprisoned there for three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes and terror. "I dream," writes Koestler, that "I am being murdered in some kind of thicket . . .; there is a busy...
...revitalized Allied force along the Tyrrhenian coast first rounded up 2,000 dazed, stranded Germans at the mouth of the Tiber, sent them to the rear. They raced almost 40 miles more, occupied one of Rome's ancient ports, Civitavecchia. Eighty miles north of Rome-25 miles ahead of Allied land patrols-Allied minesweepers poked into the harbor of San Stefano, found that it too had been evacuated...