Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today in Northern Ireland, women walking for peace [Oct. 25] are attacked with bricks and bottles by Irish children, teen-agers and men. Respect for women and love of neighbor are Christian virtues that seem to have been forgotten by these "patriots...
...losing of the West, which gave Ford about as many electoral votes (98) as Carter gained in the South (108). Moreover, the old Democratic coalition proved that it can no longer be counted on. Carter's share of the votes from ethnic groups such as the Irish, the Italians and the Eastern Europeans was reduced from most recent previous Democratic presidential campaigns. As Caddell acknowledged, Democrats will have to garner more moderate, middle-class votes in the industrial North in order to win in the future. In recognition of this trend, Carter offered favors gingerly and sparingly...
...speakers at the rally included Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, an Irish revolutionary and Tsietsi Machinini, president of the Student Representative Council in South Africa...
...Watkins, 37, of Ada, Okla., who had a harder job defeating five other Democrats in the primary than he did in whomping Republican Challenger Dr. Gerald Beasley Jr., 50. The new Speaker of the House will be Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., 63, the burly, Boston-area Irish politician who had been Majority Leader. As usual, O'Neill had only token G.O.P. opposition in winning his 13th term...
...gratuitous crime. Less than a year before, as a counsel in Hue, Hood had punched a Vietnamese official for deprecating his own people. Dismissed, he wandered to London where he has set up house with a bunch of almost comical terrorists: Mayo, a rich woman who works for the Irish Republican Army Provisionals and has stolen a Van der Weyden self-portrait which no one seems to want back; Murf, a boy who makes bombs; and Brodie, his girlfriend who plants them. Together, they form a family of sorts, arguing about what to watch on television while a room full...