Word: somerset
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...military he had found many fellow Marines who were virtually illiterate. As he puts it, "Some were tougher, some stronger, some more intelligent, some more decent. Yet by accident of birth I was commanding them and not they me." He and his wife Jane settled in the Somerset town of Yeovil, from which Ashdown was elected to Parliament as a Liberal in 1983. After the 1987 collapse of the Liberal alliance with the Social Democrats -- mainly centrist defectors from Labour -- the two parties merged and chose Ashdown as leader...
...preserving on a tiny scale the rush and tumble and fullness (if not the grand muscular articulation) of that master's paintings. British critic Sacheverell Sitwell was right to compare Rowlandson's sketch of guests floundering, bare-bottomed and head over heels, down the staircase at a "crush" at Somerset House to Rubens' Last Judgment in Munich...