Word: dover
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...having a wealth of academic opportunities. Not in the classroom, of course but in talking to my peers. I have a friend named Kyle who is literally a walking Oxford Classical Dictionary, which is wonderful, because I hate carrying my Oxford Classical Dictionary to Starbucks. "Critic and commentator Kenneth Dover was so impossibly prolific!" Kyle says, sometimes, before people seize him by the dust jacket and shut him with excessive force...
...temporary coffin carrying Ricketts arrived at Dover Air Force Base on March 2. (The body of Specialist Ian Gelig, also killed in Afghanistan, arrived on the same plane.) Dover is the first stop for dead soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families are often on hand to attend a brief, solemn ceremony as the flag-wrapped cases are removed from the plane and brought to the mortuary. The ban on media coverage of these transfers, in place during the Bush Administration, was lifted in February 2009, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ruled it should...
Four days after arriving at Dover, Ricketts' body was flown to Corinth, Miss. He had grown up in nearby Glen (pop. 300). Ricketts left behind his wife Rosie and two young children, with another due in September. In her father's home, Rosie remembered her life with Ricketts. They had met in church: she was the preacher's daughter; Ricketts was intriguing, with his spiky hair and goatee. The day before he left for basic training, they confessed their feelings for each other. When he came back, he asked her father for permission to date Rosie. They married...