Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experienced British unionists, whose power in the labor world was once undisputed, clearly resented being crowded by what seemed to them young upstarts, with pushing ways, loud ties and big, expensive cigars. They were annoyed especially when Mike Quill, truculent boss of the U.S. Transport Workers and a professional Irishman, blurted that Northern Ireland was "a slave state...
...Enright is a short wizened, 75-year-old Irishman with blue eyes and a characteristic brown hat. He has seen Harvard football players come and go ever since 1888, when he became head caretaker of the Soldiers Field grounds. Enright was officially retired in 1939, but he still helps out now and then when something comes up that stymies the more inexperienced...
...Augarten says, that an a Jew he feels an allegiance to Israel similar to that an American-born Irishman would have felt towards the IRA in 1922. He would like to return to Palestine, but not to live, although he is very hopeful for the land. "They ought to be able to hold their present boundaries," he says. He has worked with a tent-housed agricultural group in the desert, and knows that if the country can support the population of three million the Jews are planning. The biggest problem today is handling the huge group of immigrants recently absorbed...
...Reliable. The machine clanked to a dismal crawl. But handsome William F. Meade, a 44-year-old ex-ward leader who had mounted to the driver's seat only three days before the scandals began, seemed almost pleased. A tough, square-jawed Irishman, he had come to the chairmanship of the Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile...
...fire a snappy 68 to stay abreast of Britain's little Charlie Ward for the first 18 holes; Sam finally won, 6 and 5. But the best match of all was the last and deciding one, between Mangrum and Fred Daly. Said Mangrum after 18 holes: "This Irishman is tough; I had a 65 and I'm only one up." After lunch, Mangrum fell one hole behind before the pace told on Daly, who blew up and lost, 4 and 3. That match sunk the British (seven matches to five) and saved the neat little gold cup which...