Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire page of messages of sympathy, many from interned I.R.A. fighters. An estimated 2,000 mourners-including black-bereted I.R.A. fighters and uniformed girls of the Fianna na Eireann, a sort of junior I.R.A.-marched in the funeral cortege, while another 3,000 watched from the sidewalks. Civil Rights Firebrand Bernadette Devlin, who had been sentenced in absentia the day before to six months in jail for taking part in an illegal march in February (but still had 14 days to appeal), turned up to march in the procession...
Curiously, one Ulster M.P. who said not a word was firebrand Catholic Bernadette Devlin. In the Commons, reported TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, "she slumped like the dormouse in Alice on the Labor benches, and merely watched the proceedings through her spaniel hair...
Union men have long lamented that 70-year-old Harry Bridges, once an especially hot labor firebrand, has mellowed with the years. Such talk will probably not be heard much after this week when, as Bridges expects, his 15,000 West Coast longshoremen at 24 ports vote to accept a 34% raise and end the nation's longest dock strike...
...Stormont government. The protests turned into bloody riots. Mobs of Protestants marched through the Catholic ghettos of Londonderry and Belfast, burning and beating, while the Royal Ulster Constabulary and dreaded Protestant "B special" police auxiliary forces either participated or looked the other way. The riots and their aftermath brought Firebrand Reformer Bernadette Devlin to the fore as an eloquent spokesman for Catholic rights. The troubles also brought to Ulster brigades of British troops, who were at first welcomed as protectors by Catholics offering tea and sympathy...
...member of the Chinese party Politburo for 43 years, a record of survival that not even Mao Tse-tung, with 37 years in the leadership, can match. Chou was the grandson of a landowner and the son of a minor official, but he showed an early talent for firebrand politics?first as a student leader in Tientsin, later as a Communist organizer in France. When he joined the Chinese Communist Party, it was in the hands of educated urban intellectuals like himself. By the time an earthier, peasant-based faction, led by Mao Tse-tung, made its bid for dominance...