Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman squad was frustrated through much of the early going, due to its own sloppy passing and some fine goal-keeping by B.U.'s Pat Devlin...
...Election Day, Republicans did not get out enough of the vote, while the Democratic machine did its traditional duty; even its entire slate of 39 Court of Common Pleas judgeships was elected. "Watergate had a hell of a lot to do with our defeat," complained Philadelphia G.O.P. Chairman William Devlin. "People stayed home because they're ashamed of the President...
Despite all the violence-another 14 people killed in the past fortnight-the mood of Ulster seems not to be one of despair. Says Mrs. Maureen McClure, an official Unionist candidate in North Down: "Most people today are exhausted by the carnage and destruction." Adds Paddy Devlin of the S.D.L.P.: "A man could say logically 'Oh, Jesus, it's not going to work.' But to my mind, the face of politics will never be the same after this election. Everybody is tired and wants peace. I think we're heading for better times. I feel...
...would just as soon toss bricks as words but Bernadette Devlin, 26, the youngest member of Parliament, has not been attracting much attention either way lately. One reason may have been her romance with Michael McAlaskey, 24, the Republican schoolmaster she met last summer while both were campaigning against Britain's entry into the Common Market. After her marriage to Michael in Tullyodonnell, County Tyrone, Bernadette halted in the church graveyard and placed her fiery bridal bouquet of red carnations on the grave of an IRA officer who had been shot by the British army. Then the pair drove...
...month-old baby been shot in the head, had not the gardener-husband been blown to smithereens by a bomb, had not the teenage girl who liked boys and James Taylor and Melanie been run over by an Army Saracen on the way home from a dance. Bernadette Devlin talks for a long time sitting on the beach where she used to go as a child. She cannot go there any more because there are more urgent things to take care of in Derry and Parliament, and because to go to a beach and be identified as either Catholic...