Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baby Love's real name is Curtis Anthony Devlin. This is the one he uses in family court. "He ain't bad, you understand," says his Aunt Cora. "He just don't like school. And there is no one here he minds." Cora is trying to get Baby Love into a Roman Catholic residential school in upstate New York that specializes in problem children. "But I don't know if he'll stay there. One thing I do know-if he keeps on stealing gold chains he's going to be in a heap...
...Laurence McKeown, 24, neared death after 70 days of starvation, his family last week asked authorities to take measures to save him. Only two days before, the relatives of Matthew Devlin, 31, stopped his fast after 46 days, when he had difficulty breathing. In all, four hunger strikers have been saved by their families in the five weeks since the relatives of Patrick Quinn, 29, intervened when he was in a weakened state. So far, none of them has resumed his fast...
...result of one of his own guerrilla bombs. Behind him, at 55 days, Patrick Quinn, 29, had once slipped into unconsciousness. Big-bellied Michael Devine, 27, was at 48 days, gangly Lawrence McKeown, 24, at 41, and then, not too far behind, Patrick McGeown, 25, and Matt Devlin, 31, and more to come...
...Protestants in his shop forced him out at gunpoint. And then he was arrested and charged with possessing an unloaded revolver. No habeas corpus for Bobby Sands, only 14 years in prison. And don't you know that the Irish had their civil rights movement? People like Bernadette Devlin protested--peacefully--the political, social and especially economic discrimination they were subject to in the six northernmost counties of Ireland. And it didn't do a thing, except that the Protestants, and pretty soon the British troops, began to shoot at them. Don't you know that unemployment is higher, that...
...defensive side Charlotte, "Little Gump" Worsley--who might have fallen asleep had it not been for the chill winds--was challenged just four times for the entire 50 minutes, mishandling a breakaway try by Julic Devlin and one by Bernie Lombardo to give up the two Eagle goals...