Word: dover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miss Price is about to complete a correspondence course in witchcraft when her broomstick arrives in the mail without the final lesson. She bundles the kids onto a magic brass bed that flies them away from their little cottage by the white cliffs of Dover for a trip to London. The "headmaster" of the correspondence school, a sidewalk sorcerer named Professor Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson), joins the group in a search for a magic amulet that will com plete the correspondence course and secure Miss Price's powers...
...Father of the Common Market," watched the vote from the gallery in the House of Commons. Afterward he beamed: "This is what I have been waiting for during the last 25 years. Now it's the turn of the youth of Europe." On the cliffs of Dover, the European Movement, a pro-Market pressure group, built a bonfire to signal France that Britain was rejoining Europe. It was lit by former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and burned so fiercely that nearby grass was set afire and firemen had to be called...
With playmaker Dale Dover gone, the problem is greatly increased. And the new talent coming from the freshman team aggravates the challenge. Forward Tony Jenkins set a Yardling scoring record last winter and single-handedly carried an otherwise mediocre freshman squad. Transfer student Jim Fitzsimmons promises to be a top scorer after starring at Duke for one semester. But again, Fitzsimmons is the hot outside shooter rather than the playmaker...
This bulldog nationalism and Dover Cliffs insularity interact with a suspicion that the Common Market is Catholic and capitalist and would corrupt Protestant and socialist Britain. In a recent issue of the New Statesman, British Journalist Paul Johnson divided Britons into insularists (King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Anthony Eden) and Continentalists (Thomas a Becket. Charles I, Harold Macmillan). "Britain has always chosen the adventure of sovereignty in preference to the presumed security of a Continental system," wrote Johnson. "And history shows that in the end she has always chosen rightly...
...MBTA now has the money to begin moving trains to Dover St. from the present Bennett-Eliot station on Boylston St. in Cambridge, the projected location for the Kennedy Library...