Word: augured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well Prepared. Last summer's riots broke out as a result of a Catholic civil rights struggle. The latest explosions seemed to augur a resumption of the religious war that raged in Ireland a half-century ago at the time the Irish Free State was created. Irregulars on both sides-the proscribed Irish Republican Army and the Protestant Ulster Volunteer Forces-have been running guns into Northern Ireland. When the current round of riots began two weekends ago, ostensibly over the jailing of Catholic Leader Bernadette Devlin for six months on charges of rioting and inciting to riot, both...