Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them into moneymakers. For example, there is the estate's controlling interest in St. Joe Paper Co., which Ball founded and expanded until today it is practically a private holding company itself. St. Joe controls a score of paper mills and boxmaking plants in the U.S., Britain and Ireland, two profitable railroads, the Florida East Coast and the Apalachicola Northern, and owns 23% of Charter Co., a Jacksonville-based conglomerate that is in myriad undertakings from gasoline refining to planning a model city for the Shah of Iran. In building the estate, Ball also made a string of profitable...
...Ireland has long specialized in the export (sometimes mixed) of fine whisky and great writers. For every Swift, Synge or Yeats who stayed at home, there was a Wilde, Shaw or Beckett who packed off to escape artistic repression at the hands of what fellow Expatriate James Joyce called "a priestridden Godforsaken race...
...high frequency of redheads in Ireland and Scandinavia has helped determine world history with their temperament and adventurousness, think what potentialities lie in a well-organized international of redheads...
...certainly a colorful, if somewhat inaccurate, description of the two leading lights of the much-feared and respected Providence cross-country team. In fact senior John Treacy and his precocious freshman teammate Gerry Degan are far from being even remotely antagonistic. Both hail from the same town in Ireland--Waterford (pop. about 35,000), that is, the county seat of Waterford Co. (pop. a little more...
...English could not experience true jubilation again, however, until 1971 when the 1938 win at St. Andrews was duplicated. This time the final score was Great Britain and Ireland 13, the United State...