Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic messages was against self-indulgence. He told Americans that the Antichrist would come, "talking of peace, prosperity and plenty." Modern man, he insisted, seeks promises of salvation without a cross, wants a "Christ without his nails." Then the bishop would thunder: "There is no pleasure without pain, no Easter without Good Friday... God love...
...veteran who has held four major Cabinet posts, Haughey (pronounced Hah-he) won with the votes of Fianna Fáil M.P.s from the traditionally republican counties in the West and on the Ulster border. His wife Maureen's father was Sean Lemass, a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising and a former Prime Minister. Haughey's climb to party leadership was interrupted in 1970 when he was tried, and acquitted, in a Dublin court on charges of running guns to the I.R.A. Lynch promptly sacked him as Finance Minister. Though he rejoined the Cabinet after Lynch...
...should not interrupt the basic progress in our relations which was being achieved. He was aware that the Soviet Union had an ideological affinity with Hanoi. But we did not choose this moment for the "flare-up" in Viet Nam [he was referring to Hanoi's 1972 Easter offensive]. We could not reconsider our policy unless Hanoi indicated new flexibility in its negotiating stance. Moscow, he needled, should use the influence it acquired through supplying military equipment to make Hanoi think again...
Most people, in some corner of their mental luggage, carry images of F.D.R., Churchill, Stalin, Gandhi, De Gaulle, Mao and other archetypes as large in memory as Easter Island moai heads...
Soon the thief, who by then was running, threw the bag at Easter, huffing, "I don't want it. It's not worth this." But Easter just kept coming. The thief, by now badly winded, jettisoned some more excess baggage, including a small scale for weighing letters that he had apparently shoplifted from another store. Still Easter kept gaining. Finally the exhausted thief collapsed in a parking lot. "I give up," he wheezed, whereupon Easter hauled him to the nearest police station. Easter's quarry, Mark Reese, 31, pleaded guilty to assault and theft...