Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SUNDAY. Shortly after midnight, another kidnaper became nervous. Identified later as Dominick Byrne, 53, an Irish-born operator of a Brooklyn limousine service, he saw FBI agents near the Lynch apartment building. Apparently assuming that the kidnap plot was crumbling, he decided to fend for himself. Byrne sent someone to deliver a note to a police precinct in Brooklyn. Police notified the FBI and went to Byrne's apartment. He told them where Sam was being kept. When police rushed there, they found the building already under surveillance by other FBI agents...
...guest appearances and bickering over billing. (Would the Queen get first billing over the title because of royal privilege, or would Steiger outrank her because he won an Oscar?) Hennessy, the matter at hand, turns out to be a reasonably stout if rather unoriginal thriller about an Irish demolitions expert who swears vengeance on the British Empire...
...liberal, sometime radical, programs. His major legislative coup was the passage of no-fault automobile insurance. The plan was rational and elegantly simple, and though its social consequences cut lawyers most deeply, he was applauded. He was also something of an intellectual in a Legislature where neither the Irish nor the Italians can spell quantification. He is also Greek...
...Travel in Wilmette, Ill., "The only people going to Europe this year-and these are people who have been going to Europe since they were children, an don't buy tours-are coming in askin for charters and free information like where can they get a list of Irish farm houses where they can stay...
...Sauer impressed on his students the need to find "humane ways" to use earth's resources. Sauer was equally comfortable discussing ancient literature, leading expeditions to Baja California, or interviewing small farmers about soil erosion. His best-known books, Northern Mists and The Early Spanish Main, contended that Irish monks reached North America before Leif Ericson, and that Christopher Columbus had been an unstable governor of the West Indies, setting policies that nearly exterminated the region's Indians...