Word: breda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Breda O'Sullivan...
Seven years and 70 letters passed. Breda, a country milkmaid in the County Kerry village of Lispole, a speck on the map not far from Tralee, wrote of raising a greyhound, of playing a few parts on the stage at Killarney, of hoping some day to teach Frank the hornpipe. Frank, who was now an arc welder, wrote that he had sold his 1941 automobile, cashed in his war bonds and was setting aside $80 a month until he had enough for an airplane trip to County Kerry...
Only an Orangeman, and a sour one at that, could resist such a beginning to an international romance. Frank and Breda met first in Tralee where, as the song says, the pale moon rises above the green mountain. While most of County Kerry (and a stomping herd of out-of-town newsmen) looked on, they spent a day touring the Killarney Lakes, several hours at the thatched cottage on the 15-acre O'Sullivan farm where Breda's uncle dourly examined the visitor from America and 24-year-old Breda stuffed him with tea and cakes specially made...
Kerrymen were overjoyed to note that in no time, Frank and Breda were holding hands and smiling coyly at each other. But Frank and Breda, caught between excitement and embarrassment, kept County Kerry-and a good part of the world-waiting. "It's in the hands of God," commented Frank. "She's very nice." "After all," added Breda with a blush, "we only met a few hours ago. Up to then, he was only a man in a bottle...
...Soccer Games. In Milan, 3,000 Red activists patrolled the gates of the huge Breda steel plant and other factories, barred workers from entering. Others stopped the city's trams. One group burst into the office of Mayor Antonio Greppi (a right-wing Socialist), demanded that he address a mass meeting in the Piazza del Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized...