Word: blarney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is anything the Irish admire more than a first-class horseman, it's a chap with a tongue touched with blarney. And to have both in the same man, now there's a fine ambassador for the Americans to be sending. Of course, Raymond Guest, 58, noted Virginia horse breeder and financier, did warn them when he arrived last year that he "intended to be the kind of American you would like to see in your country." So it was no surprise when he showed up at the Dublin Horse Show astride his eight-year-old gelding...
...tanks and armored cars of the green-bereted Siliwangi Division and the tough R.P.K.A.D. paracommandos (comparable to the U.S. Special Forces). As the generals patiently shuttled back and forth to Bogor, Sukarno held them off with his celebrated command of mus-jawarah, the cerebral Javanese equivalent of blarney...
HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the story of the making and unmaking of an American politician...
HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and political clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the turbulent story of the making and unmaking of an American politician...
...garden catalogues were synonyms for sucker bait. Thanks to such groups as All-America Selections, which tests the new varieties, the big companies now make a painstaking effort to describe their wares honestly, and to illustrate them in true-to-life colors, along with a modicum of imagination-whetting blarney...