Word: glens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole, in fact the town where the author-narrator of An Beal Bocht, O'Coonassa, was born and lived, does stand for all the Gaeltacht of West Ireland that O'Coonassa can see from his "small, lime-white and unhealthy house situated in the corner of the glen": from the bare Rosses and Tory Iland "like a great ship where the sky dips into the sea"-visible out the right hand window-to Connemara and Aranmore, seen out the door, to the left-hand view of the Great Blasket "forbidding as an otherworldly eel, lying languidly on the wavetops...
...Glen Head...
...water a second through a section called The Narrows at a depth of 12 ft. But the storm that destroyed a vacationland sent 40,000 cu. ft. per sec. through the gap at an incredible depth of 30 ft.-some 320,000 gal. per sec. In the hamlet of Glen Haven, 80% of the buildings were seriously damaged or destroyed. Most of Drake's 200 residents are still missing, and the village remains cut off. From Drake east to the mouth of the canyon, nearly everything has disappeared...
Hillis, who has never married, says that when she was young she never thought that "being a woman would make a difference [in her career], because I'd always done everything I wanted." Her father Glen was a lawyer and businessman in Kokomo, Ind.; her mother Bernice, an amateur musician. The most illustrious member of the family was Bernice's father, Elwood Haynes, who designed one of the first successful automobiles and discovered stainless steel...
...will only recognize $1.9 billion. Meanwhile, the shipbuilders are forced to dip into their own working capital to finance construction. They complain that the Navy has been trying to build too many ships with too little money. "You cannot expect a private company to finance the U.S. Navy," declares Glen McDaniel, chairman of Litton's executive committee...