Word: dover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Begin stands by his unsanctioned predation, the American Eagle will drop him, and the Russian Bear will gobble him up. Walter Gerzin Dover...
...headed northwest toward the English Channel. Five hours and 23 minutes later, after a flight of 230 miles at speeds no more than 47 m.p.h., Ptacek touched down at Manston Royal Air Force Base on the southeastern coast of England some 20 miles north of Dover. His odyssey might have made Icarus drop with envy. In a historic feat, Challenger had managed to cross the Channel powered only by the glinting rays...
Police quickly grabbed Marcus Simon Sarjeant, 17, an unemployed youth from a small town near Dover, and charged him with "wilfully discharging at the Queen blank cartridges with intent to alarm her." Despite fears that the shooting was some kind of warning from the Irish Republican Army, the action may merely have been a protest against the lack of jobs for young Britons. An official spokesman acknowledged that there would probably be a "re-examination of security" for next month's royal wedding, which might take some of the festivity out of the occasion...
Ralph McClintock Dover, Mass...
...they knew it, maybe not, but surely they felt the heritage of two who used to live on the site: Henry Adams, author and descendant of Presidents, and John Hay, a personal secretary to Lincoln and later Secretary of State to McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. The Reagans nibbled on Dover sole and an omelette where Stuart Symington, 79, the erect and handsome former Senator from Missouri, used to court his first wife, Evelyn Wadsworth, granddaughter...