Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over 45 million Irish-Americans living today. We sing of the "old country," talking lovingly about the light mists that caress her rolling green fields, dancing to her vibrant music traditional and modern, and celebrating this wondrous "Isle of Saints and Scholars." As we raise a pint in modern America, we focus on the joys of being Irish and do not remember what it is to be hungry...
Nevertheless, the Irish finally "made it" in America, eventually becoming CEO's of Fortune 500 companies, major league ballplayers, Senators and representatives, Supreme Court Justices, even President of the United States. Just like it isn't American to "pull up the life boats" for future immigrants, it isn't American, nor is it Irish, to forget our past, to forget some of the forces that drove us to this country in the first place, and thereby remember and aid those who now are in need of what we once needed...
...accident that around the 150-year anniversary of the worst year of the famine, "Black '47," famine memorials began to spring up all over America. In fact, former Irish President, Mary Robinson, dedicated one right here in Cambridge. We Irish-Americans have a responsibility to our ancestors, to those who suffered needlessly during the famine, to those who left their loved ones forever waiting at the docks to pursue new lives in a New World, to put our perceptions right, to help spread peace and freedom in the land that birthed our grandparents and throughout the world, and to remember...
Amid speculation that the real reason Hillary Clinton canceled her trip with Bill to Central America was that she is furious with him, sources in Washington say Secret Service agents are vouching for the account that she aggravated an old back injury while skiing in Utah. According to officials, Mrs. Clinton was sideswiped by another skier, which led to a review by Secret Service headquarters to make sure her security detail had been in place to deal with any sudden, threatening movement toward the First Lady. Mrs. Clinton, who wore a hat and dark glasses, apparently went unrecognized...
...holding up a copy of yesterday's New YorkPost, which had the headline "Chillary" emblazonedacross the masthead, Stahl said the Clintons arenot always able to keep up appearances. The storyreported that Hillary Clinton had not accompaniedthe president on his trip to Latin America thisweek because she was angry with...