Word: dover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Answers. Two detectives who set out on his trail found that he lived at none of them. But at one they learned that Peakes's parents were at Dover-Fox-croft, Me.: by telephone they finally got his Boston address. At 11 o'clock that night they eased themselves into his furnished room, found the murder pistol, then settled down tensely for his return. Peakes was amiability itself when he walked in. He admitted the killing...
...lowering fog that shrouded the cliffs of Dover one morning last week, an unseen foghorn moaned. As if summoned by the echoes, 178 sallow-faced workmen, each carrying a brown paper parcel or a battered cardboard suitcase, trudged along the quay of Dover Marine Station and straggled up the gangplank of a trim Belgian steamer, the S.S. Koenig Albert. The men were Italian miners, recruited to dig coal in fuel-hungry Britain; they were being sent away because British miners refused to work with foreigners (TIME, May 26). Most will find jobs in Belgian pits...
...Koenig Albert cast off from Dover. Leaning on the taffrail, the Italians reflected on the months of wasted time. Some were bitter: "The English were afraid we would take their work away from them. How could we? They don't do any." Others grieved. "They wouldn't talk to us," cried Giovanni Ovino. "I said to myself: 'Maybe they don't like my black hair.' In a funny way, I felt ashamed of my hair. But how could I change it?" Domenico Loi saw it in a wider context. "They weren't Communists...
...Dover...
...DOVER, N.H., March 3--G.O.P. presidential candidate Harold E. Stassen today said that draft-eligible men between the ages of 17 and 27 should choose the time themselves when want to serve in the armed forces...