Word: intacta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead-end hole. It was very dusty; his suit was dirtied; the experience antagonized him toward the scheme. Gladstone favored the tunnel; Lord Randolph Churchill quashed it with a cogent remark. Said he: "The reputation of England has hitherto depended upon her being, as it were, virgo Intacta." Periodically the project was revived, discussed, quashed. Britons mostly agreed with Winston Churchill's father, had especial reason to do so when the Germans reached Calais...