Word: belfasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ireland, including the six counties that constitute Ulster. Ever since-and particularly after Southern Ireland went its Catholic way-Ulster's leaders have been preoccupied with safeguarding the Christian Reformation. William's picture is still painted on the red brick wall of many a Protestant home in Belfast, along with slogans like "No Pope Here." Protestant extremists have taken lately to insulting Catholic women with a new shout: "Ee-aya-addio, you can't take the pill...
...forget the name. The Northern Ireland government provided Cadillacs for any MelIons that needed transportation, even furnished an athletic subofficial as a partner for a Mellon who got a sudden impulse for a spot of tennis. After giving the assembled Mellons a ceremonial dinner in the Parliament building in Belfast, Prime Minister O'Neill journeyed next day to Omagh to help dedicate the ancestral cottage. Said he: "This home will forever be a monument not just to the Mellon family but to the potential of human character in a land of opportunity...
...Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders and become one of the few British shipbuilders able to handle the mammoth tankers that are becoming a key to the industry's survival. Two Esso tankers, 240,000 tons each, bigger than any ship ever built in Britain, will go up in their yards. Belfast's Harland & Wolff will build two more, at a price of $73 million for the four...
There is just one place in the world where that is being done consistently and effectively-Northern Ireland's dour capital city of Belfast. At the Royal Victoria Hospital, Cardiologist James F. Pantridge combed the records and found that 60% of heart-attack deaths occurred within the first hour...
Though the Belfast doctors make a fetish of avoiding "haste or fuss," the patient is soon on his way to the hospital in the mobile unit, with his heart monitored all the way. If it stops en route, the doctors can restart it, just as they would in the hospital. The unit has proved so effective that in its first 15 months of operation not one of the 312 heart patients taken to the Royal Victoria has died in transit. Once in the hospital, many-perhaps most-of them have fared better because superior treatment was started so promptly...