Word: crips
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British stubbornness prevented the evacuation last week of such smashed-up places as Ramsgate, Dover, Southampton (see col. j). In the headlines appeared damage to such sentimental landmarks as St. Giles, Crip-plegate, in London where Oliver Cromwell was married and John Milton buried. Milton's statue was blown from its pedestal before the church (see cut). Also damaged were the spire of Rochester Cathedral, Novelist Henry James's house...