Word: celtic
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...Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures will then be the only department remaining without its own special library facilities...
There is not one rookie on the ball club, and the bench is so strong that if Boston fielded two teams instead of one, they would probably wind up playing each other for the N.B.A. title. Each Celtic is a specialist. John ("Hondo") Havlicek is a 205-pounder who chose basketball over pro football (he was drafted by the Cleveland Browns), boasts the most efficient elbows in the league. Guard K. C. Jones may not yet be in Cousy's class as a playmaker, but says one insider: "All he needs is a little more time...
...Celtics have not forgotten Bob Cousy-although they would like to. The memory serves mostly as a goad. "He's an opponent now," says one Celtic, "a kind of shadow that we're playing against." Says Russell: "Nothing much has changed. Now, when we take the ball out of bounds, we give it to Jones. In the past, we gave it to Cousy. That's the only difference...
...splinters of green, gold or luminous waves of grey, staining the hills blue and purple and vermilion, heaping the valleys with shimmering veils of mist. In that weird, wet Atlantic light-or so they say-the swarthy chieftains and pale queens who once ruled the five kingdoms of Celtic Ireland still clatter across country. As the island's endless sleight-of-sky creates and dissolves horizons, the landscape seems dreamily unreal. The reality of Ireland is special: it lies on a border region where tragedy and laughter, jollity and gloom, hell and the happy isles converge-and as such...
...weeks out of the year, the tiny Isle of Man (221 sq. mi.) sits placidly in the Irish Sea, a quaint clinker of Celtic culture, noted mostly for its kippers and cats. But once a year the Isle is hell on wheels. Sandbags guard the sidewalks, the blat-a-tat of racing engines shatters the quiet, and gravediggers thoughtfully lay out new plots in Borough Cemetery. "Tourist Trophy Week" is at hand-and thousands of motorcycle riders arrive for a five-day carnival of racing over one of the world's most perilous courses...