Word: dail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long time had passed since he was the martyr "Convict 95" who set the crowds to screaming, "Up Dev! Up the Republic!" For one thing, he had insisted on tying to the presidential election "the Issue"-doing away with proportional representation, which, while giving minorities a voice in the Dail, tends to keep alive old animosities that should have long since become ancient history. "Get rid of the intrigous P.R.!" cried a member of Dev's Fianna Fail (Party of Destiny). "De Valera and Fianna Fail want dictatorship!" retorted the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) Party...
...baffled inspector passed on his problem to Dublin, and at week's end a representative from the Dail Eireann was hurrying westward. "It's serious enough," he told newsmen, "for there isn't a man on the peninsula who doesn't believe in the little people. But I think if we build the fence around the rath, it might satisfy everyone." A second civil servant was not so sure. "It's bad enough giving the fairies official recognition," he grumbled. "The next thing, they'll be coming in here looking for pensions...
...crossroads one night last week. They were celebrating the return to power, in Ireland's first general elections since 1954, of their own 74-year-old Eamon de Valera, whose Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party scored a clear-cut victory by taking 78 of the Irish Dail's 147 seats...
...Alderman Briscoe's selection (which was decided by a tie-breaking draw from a black bowler). Bobby Briscoe was Dublin born and Dublin reared, had joined the I.R.A. as a mere lad, taken up arms for freedom, and worked 29 years for it with De Valera in the Dail. He had been in on some of the spectacular events, too, like the time he and the I.R.A. boys seized the Irish Free State consulate in New York back in 23 and held it under siege until the New York police riot squad drove them out. In Parliament...
Five years ago Dr. Clarence W. Dail, at Los Angeles' Rancho Los Amfgos Hospital, noticed that one of his polio patients, a young man whose breathing muscles were almost completely paralyzed, had unconsciously developed a substitute way of breathing. He and Dr. John Affeldt, the physician in charge of the polio respirator center, believed that other patients might be taught to do the same, and began to experiment. Last week the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced that their new method will be taught to partially paralyzed patients at all of its centers. Its name: glossopharyngeal, or "frog," breathing...