Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tommy got off at Dundalk, just south of the border. He works in England--many Irishmen have to--as an apprentice electrician, but his holiday was scheduled for the same two weeks all Orangemen in Northern Ireland take off, and he didn't want to go back for their festivities. Not when he'd have to take the antipapist slogans lying down...
...When my train pulled into Belfast on the afternoon of the eleventh, some of the older kids were joining in and throwing old furniture onto the piles. Shops were closing up early and the people on the streets seemed to be in a hurry to get home: the fortnight holiday had begun. That night the red-yellow flames of bonfires etched the city's roofs into the night, and the strains of bagpipe music filtered through the streets, while sirens filled the air. Bonfires lit up all of Ulster, and the sirens were ominous at first--they seemed to presage...
...Shop stewards and managers alike frequently spend half of their day on labor disputes, but because the men do not actually leave the plant, these countless lost hours are not even logged among the 70,000 man-days the company now loses a year. "It's like a holiday camp here," says Michael Peach, 29, a press setter operator and Doug Peach's second...
...Holiday. Though no thieves' holiday came to pass, there were scattered acts of vandalism, looting and violence. Three Chinese youths opened fire on police picketing outside the Ingleside station. An angry motorist ran down two police pickets at the Mission station. In some cases, police used their guns to defend themselves. Requests for private armed guards soared, coming mostly from the city's banks and financial houses. The guard-dog business was also brisk. Complained nonstriking Police Captain Jeremiah Taylor, with some exaggeration: "The kids-the kinkies -are tearing the town apart. We can't handle...
...ousted predecessor, Ted Heath, are as frosty as ever, but the two Conservatives do have one thing in common. Both like to be photographed in yachting hats at the helm of a boat. Ocean-Racer Heath, however, need fear no competition from Thatcher, who last week on holiday was content to be aboard the twin-engine Melita on the placid canals of Brittany. "It really is so important to keep a boat tidy," counseled the Tories' First Lady. "Any housewife will tell you, the smaller the space, the more important it is to have everything in its place." Even...