Word: messinas
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...Hitler's armies on the Russian front, had been wounded, and rushed back into combat as a sergeant of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. He had survived the German retreat from Sicily by swimming a mile to shore after his boat was sunk in the Strait of Messina, and had been badly wounded again and finally captured by U.S. forces near the Volturno River in Italy...
...troubles. The Stockholm starters, who had to cross over on the ferry from Hälsingborg, got bogged down when a French gendarme sent them on a 30-kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally's maximum 65-kilometer-per-hour average speed (because of time lost at the Simplon Tunnel), they still...
...they would be married as soon as she gets a divorce from her husband. "Unfortunately," explained Ingrid, "there have been some difficulties; otherwise I would already be Roberto's wife." Added the director: "Ingrid explained things quite clearly to Mr. Lindstrom last May when she saw him in Messina during a 48-hour visit. Our situation was fully discussed. And I want to make clear that at that time the relationship between Ingrid and myself was absolutely correct. It is not our fault, is it, if we cannot get married because Ingrid has been unable so far to obtain...
Sharp & Tired. Yet the hits of the show seemed to be two less well known Italian sculptors, both in their 40s and both art teachers in Milan. Francesco Messina had sent a polished bronze Pugilatore, done in the old Roman tradition of sharp realism. Pugilatore had the punch-dazed, flat-footed weariness, the slumping shoulders of a bantamweight turning back to his corner after the tenth round...
Last week, in the midst of all the hubbub, Dr. Peter Lindstrom landed at Rome's Ciampino airport. He met his wife and Rossellini in Messina's shabby-best Hotel Reale, and the three talked far into the night. Next day, "for the protection of my family," Ingrid issued a statement: "I have met my husband here and have discussed and clarified our situation . . ." No one thought that the statement clarified anything, but she and Rossellini went back to l'isola nera to finish their picture. Dr. Lindstrom, back in Rome, made a statement...