Word: dover
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...Germans the 21 miles of water between Calais and the chalk cliffs of Dover had never before seemed so wide. Now that all the usual channels of war information had been cut off, they got only what the Allies wanted them to have...
...Ground. On the invasion rim, from King's Lynn on The Wash down past Great Yarmouth, the herring port, past Harwich, home of Britain's famed gunnery school, to the misty mouth of the Thames, where Sheerness and Shoeburyness stand guard, to the North Foreland around by Dover and Beachy Head to Southampton and on to the Devon towns and Land's End in Cornwall, only those with identity cards might...
...Cinque Ports - originally Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney and Hastings, later all the southeast coastal towns - dot the chalk-cliffed coast where France leans closest to the British Isles...
...mere rotogravure rube. On weekends he bolts out to his 89-acre farm at Dover, 15 miles southwest of Boston. He knows that his "I'm just a simple Yankee New Englander" is good politics. But it is no pose; on his farm, he puts on old clothes, pitches hay, saws wood, beds down his horses. He "turns over" four pigs a year; sells two, eats two. Last year he sold 1,600 dozen eggs...
Governor Leverett Saltonstall wasn't ready with a successor. For a few days he took evasive action, sawing wood and saying little, on his Dover, Mass. farm...