Word: dover
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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School started again last fortnight in Dover, most dangerous spot in England, for the first time since Dunkirk. In the teeth of big German guns across the Channel, most of the 1,300 moppets still left in the city emerged from chalk-cliff cave shelters to hour-and-a-half sessions of the three Rs in six shell-scarred schoolhouses (glassless windows were boarded, roofs patched from bomb hits...
Words Without Music, by Norman Corwin for Columbia. A half-hour of poetic comedy with Arnold's Dover Beach tossed in for good measure...
...Luftwaffe picked out Britain's east coast invasion ports, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Hull, Dover, Ramsgate. Under a cynical harvest moon bombers dropped high explosives and incendiaries, raked streets with cannon fire. For good measure they repeated the performance two nights later...
Henry D. Russell, Dover, Mass., Assistant Curator of Mollusks...
...Dover...