Word: cormac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacCool could also hit. To qualify for the Fianna, a band of soldiers in the service of Cormac Mac Art, Ireland's illustrious Third-Century king, he was buried to the knees as a target for nine warriors. With a shield and hazel stick, Finn knocked their spears aside...
...gigantically framed and wildly clad," writes Irish Canadian John Mac-Cormac about his heroine, Canada. This sentence is one of the few in his book that will not come as news to a majority of U. S. readers. For Mr. MacCormac, longtime New York Times correspondent in Canada, elsewhere writes neither in such brogue nor in platitudes but with a keen sense of U. S. ignorance about Canada, a brimming ability to fill in that ignorance...