Word: kentish
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...they were safely through, it was the British who were bloody. The British had lost 20 bombers, 16 fighters and six torpedo planes, had suffered heavy damage to at least one destroyer. The Germans admitted losing 28 planes, which they might do in a day of raiding along the Kentish coast...
...German broadcasts claimed that 18 months' work on Channel bases for an invasion of England had been completed. On Christmas Eve German Channel guns shelled the Kentish coast for 30 minutes...
...Before the war," observed shy, polite Author Harold Nicolson, British Parliamentary Secretary to the Information Ministry, to his constituents, "I had a great friend called Colonel Lindbergh." (The Colonel used to live, in fact, on Nicolson's Kentish estate.) "Before the war, Lindbergh's opinion of the British people was, 'You're fine but you are getting soft.' Now, after every bad raid, I have the great pleasure of sending him a post card saying, 'Do you still think we are soft?' Lindbergh does not answer these cards but I like sending them...
...When cattle are herded across a road in a blackout, lights must be carried fore and aft. A Kentish farmer was recently fined five shillings for driving cows without head and tail lights. Do not (as many did) paint horses and colts to look like zebras-motorists cannot see them any better, foals cannot recognize their own mothers, and go hungry...
From England, where denunciation had been loudest, now came a "defense" more destructive than any attack so far. Wrote Author Harold Nicolson, in whose "Long Barn" estate at the foot of the Kentish weald Lindbergh stayed during his English exile: "He emerged from that ordeal (the 1932 kidnap-murder of his son) with a loathing for publicity that was almost pathological. He identified the outrage to his private life first with the popular press and then . . . with freedom of speech and then, almost, with freedom. He began to loathe democracy, . . . His self-confidence thickened into arrogance and his convictions hardened...