Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfectly friendly, utterly deadly knowledge of both the English and the Irish. Leaping in two directions, Shaw spares no one, stops at nothing. But his fireworks sometimes shed new light, and his paradoxes sometimes prove very sound perceptions. Least of all does John Bull spare Larry Doyle, the Irishman who, like Shaw, has turned English, sees clearly what's wrong with both countries, and is not very happy in either...
Meantime, there was only one thing for a good Irishman to do-place his bets. Sweepstakes were flourishing in every office in Eire last week, and Radio-Eireann, the state broadcasting company, which had timidly refused to air political speeches of any kind, was offering a fat cash prize to the best picker...
Hold hard! No true Irishman would delight to see a hunt riding just on the tails (ugh!) of hounds [TIME...
...ignoring all traffic signals because of U.N. immunity) spent his time skiing down Manhattan's Park Avenue. Even the U.N. bar was almost deserted. One afternoon, a silent figure joined a handful of hardy newsmen. Over his whiskey, he growled: "Thash the trouble with thish place. Not an Irishman around." Anonymously, he disappeared...
...regrets the turn hockey has taken is taciturn Frank Boucher, an Irishman with a French name (rhymes with touché), who coaches the New York Rangers. Boucher, one of the greatest playmaking centers ever to wear skates, was one of the first coaches to install the new fire-horse technique. "Any club that doesn't use it," he insists, "will have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five...