Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toyota sedan drew up to the hillside Dublin mansion of John Guinness, a local banker related to the celebrated clan of brewers. After ringing the doorbell, three hooded men, brandishing guns, forced their way into the house and began ransacking it for valuables. Then they started to make off with Guinness's daughter Gillian, 23, before acceding to the request of her mother Jennifer that they take her instead. As the hoods left, they demanded a $2.6 million ransom...
...Ottawa native competed in the top-ranked position for the National Canadian Women's Squash Team in the World Championships at Australia in 1983. Last August she played in the third-ranked position, contributing to the Canadians' best-ever finish of fifth place at the World Championships held at Dublin...
...collection of articles past, and a nonfiction work on Ireland, a place he has not lived in since 1953. "I had a dream the other night," he remembers. "A voice with a brogue whispered, 'Would you moind puttin' somethin' down about me?' It was Nick, my cab driver from Dublin. I had been storing him for 30 years. How can you ever run out of ideas with a subconscious like that...
...Orson Welles was giving birth to his own screen legend with Citizen Kane. The sin of Welles' life was that it had two complementary, all-American acts: heroic tragedy, then celebrity farce. By the time he was 25, Welles had traveled the world, appeared at the Gate Theater in Dublin, stormed Broadway with crackling, sepulchral productions of Shakespeare and The Cradle Will Rock, scared America out of its wits with his War of the Worlds radio caprice, and served as producer, director, co-author and star of the most influential work in film history. Praised and vilified...
...idiosyncratic management style. He and others complained about her lateness at Cabinet meetings, lack of preparation and indecisiveness. The Secretary's defenders praised her successes, like reducing Medicare cost inflation, and her efforts to protect the poor and elderly against budget cutters. Heckler will take up residence in Dublin early next year. Her departure leaves Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole as the lone woman Cabinet member...