Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thank you for the bit about Misty Malarky Ying Yang [Feb. 28]. After a long and virtually uninterrupted tenure of dogs, it is reassuring to know that there is now a Siamese cat in the White House to keep an eye on things. Irish Setters and Golden Retrievers are all very well in their way, but they are too much given to a naive acceptance of any human as a friend...
...Clinton, Mass., a faded, heavily Democratic mill town (pop. 13,300) west of Boston, friendly citizens applauded the President's every remark at a folksy town assembly. Two sons of Edward and Katherine Thompson, a merry middle-class Irish couple with whom Carter spent the night, even joked about having a Chief Executive in their home. "Should we stand when he comes in?" asked Edward Thompson, 27. "No," quipped his brother Richard, 16, "we're going to kneel...
Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took steps two weeks ago to ban it on questionable anticancer grounds, saccharin suddenly has more friends than an Irish bartender on St. Patrick's Day. Millions of skeptical Americans rushed to supermarkets last week to stock up on thousands of saccharin-sweetened products-diet soft drinks, canned fruits, desserts-before the FDA's ban goes into effect, which might happen on July 1. "We had our shelves almost cleaned off," said a Denver grocer, Ross McCotter. Said Houston Supermarket Owner John T. Butera: "A man called this morning and asked...
...Smith knew so much about Florence Nightingale that in 1942 she was urged to write her biography by a publisher friend. She spent six years working on her book, which earned unanimous critical acclaim. She also wrote about the charge of the Light Brigade (The Reason Why, 1953), the Irish famine and the early years of Queen Victoria. Of the long hours she spent digging into musty archives, Woodham-Smith explained: "Writing history is nervous work, thanks to the vigilance of other historians...
...that febrile setting that a school-integration plan ordered the busing of children between the city's most antagonistic neighborhoods (Irish Catholic South Boston and black Roxbury). It was resisted by every defiant or foot-dragging means possible by a Boston School Committee that exploited the town's inherent bigotry and fear. Lupo contends that Mayor Kevin White, a progressive but hard-nosed political pro, saved Boston from chaos in 1974 by pleading, cajoling and threatening the city's many factions-including its antibusing police-through wearying hours of public meetings, private coffee klatches, telephone calls...