Word: cromer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cromer, England, Edward Atkins explained to police: "I shot my wife because she told me to, and I have always done what I was told." In Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, José Licea explained why he had shot his sister-in-law: he had mistaken her for his wife...
...onetime soap-opera star), a cast, and judicious music and sound effects told a simple, effective story. "Troy was a town," said the narrator. "So was Jericho. Lidice was a town. Likewise Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula, later to be known as Los Angeles. And Cromer was a town, and is a town, and you'll find it on a map of the east coast of England, in the district called East Anglia, facing the North Sea, facing Germany...
...half hour Corwin's drama examined Cromer. There was a church, bomb-scarred but upright; a pier, wrecked in the middle to make it useless to invading Nazis; the beach where as many as 75,000 vacationists once toasted in the summer sun; Rust's nearly empty department store on High Street; a baker named Baker...
...middle of a big war-only 20 minutes flying time distant from a Nazi aerodrome. People said "God Bless" to each other the way Americans say "Good-by." The maid at the hotel said "Thank you" each time she served a dish. A salvage worker proudly told how Cromer won the East Anglia salvage contest. There were echoes of a hot controversy about whether the church should set its wall back to make more room for parked cars. A German bomb had settled that...
Disappointed in his hopes of a financial post with Lord Cromer, the young proconsul returned to a lawyer's desk in London, lived through the war's disenchantments, dabbled bashfully in politics because he thought it was his duty. When his great friend and hero George V sent him to Ottawa in 1935, when he had already made an imperial name for himself as a novelist and biographer and had adjudged himself too old for a career in Parliament, John Buchan sprang into action like one of Milner's young war horses, did a difficult...