Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 100 dissidents from Enfield College of Technology staged a sit-down outside the London borough's civic center to protest a town-council decision to evict a band of gypsies from their caravan site. They were joined by Bernadette Devlin, 22, Britain's angry young Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, who devoured soft ice cream and spouted hard politics. The peppery lass harangued the crowd for about ten minutes, declaring: "If the citizens of England allow the gypsies to be evicted without protest, they cannot go to church and say 'I love my brother...
...seems an unknown quantity to his own Union Party, Chichester-Clark is regarded as an open book by his opponents. Fiery Bernadette Devlin, newly elected to the British Parliament, dismisses him as "just another squire." A student worker in civil rights grumbled that Chichester-Clark was "a hell of a name to paint on a banner." But the new man promises to provide reporters with choice copy. When a U.S. newsman asked if the recent riots were bad for tourism, Chichester-Clark reportedly replied: "I don't see why they should be. Anyway, why would an American tourist even...
...politically disenfranchised minority. Aiding them, and drawing most of their support from the Catholics, are the civil rights advocates, who espouse a non-sectarian solution to Ulster's problems. Their banner was carried to the House of Commons in London last week by pint-sized, pugnacious Bernadette Devlin in as memorable an M.P.'s debut as any one could remember. Caught squarely in the middle is the government of Captain O'Neill, whose efforts toward reaching compromise and conciliation are considered too little and too late by the Catholics and civil rightists alike-and too much...
...Norfolk team's leading scorers, Art Devlin and Tom McInerney, are publishing a colection of quiz questions entitled "Questions from the Rockpile." Their teammates Saturday night were Robert Trow, Frank Visser, and James Lang...
AUNT AGATHA, THERE'S A LION UNDER THE COUCH!, by Wende and Harry Devlin (D. Van Nostrand; $3.95). Aunt Agatha and Matthew live together in a big old Victorian house. One day, Matthew says he sees a lion, and Aunt Agatha, who knows all about small boys' fantasies, gently tells him: "You laugh at it, and it becomes paler and paler until it disappears." But the lion turns out to be real-which just goes to show, muses Aunt Agatha, that "you never can tell when a little boy has something very important...