Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both John and Scott went on to capitalize on the new opportunities at hand in the best entrepreneurial tradition of their Scotch-Irish forebearers. Scott has emerged as the Crimson's second leading tackler this year despite missing the Penn game with a slight shoulder separation. John has caught 12 passes this season--including a covey of circus of grabs. What's more, he has snagged a touchdown pass in each of Harvard's last three games...
Fitzsimmons and Sheehan were barely a second apart, coming home fourth and fifth behind Providence's all-American Dan Dillon and his Irish teammate Redmond Treacy, a former junior nation team member in his homeland. Meyer captured ninth, running his best race in several outings...
...addition to the classical writings, much of what is known about the ancient Celts comes from the medieval Irish monks who lovingly transcribed the oral tradition of their ancestors. Firsthand evidence of Celtic accomplishments is more elusive. It is derived largely from ancient grave sites, many of which were ravaged by plunderers. Thus, a year ago, when farmers in the village of Hochdorf, 16 km (10 miles) northwest of Stuttgart, began plowing up curious stones that had clearly been assembled at the site in ancient times, archaeologists quickly converged on the scene. What they uncovered was the collapsed remnant...
...lives in the "Archie Bunker" district, so called because it includes the streets lined with stucco houses that are shown at the beginning of All in the Family. The mostly working-class district is populated by Irish, Italians and Germans, along with pockets of blacks. Last spring Ferraro, 43, quit her job as an assistant district attorney, hired a campaign manager and opened her headquarters. Says she: "I wasn't going to run this campaign over a kitchen table." To help finance her race for the seat vacated after 32 years by the retirement of Democrat James Delaney, she dipped...
...Boggs succeeded her late husband in Congress, but to keep the seat for the past six years, she has had to win acceptance as one of the regulars at places like the Half Moon oyster house and Parasol's Bar, where politics is played in New Orleans' Italian and Irish neighborhoods...