Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoffa let it be known that he was more than willing to return to the house of labor; the only obstacle, said he, was "that dopey, thick-headed Irishman," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. To Meany, and even to such friendly A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders as Walter Reuther ("Reuther is not stupid like Meany"), Hoffa threw down a challenge. Either he would be taken back on his own terms within 18 months or he would form his own federation. Few who heard Hoffa doubted his determination; he had already defied the U.S. Government and forced Jack Kennedy to swallow a campaign...
Parallel Lines. At first sight, Charlie Carmody seems to have the gusto of Frank Skeffington, the roguish politician (modeled on James Michael Curley) who ran away with the earlier novel. But Charlie dwindles into a gabby stage Irishman. Father Kennedy promises to be one of Graham Greene's degraded but tormented priests. Instead, his anguish is smothered in resignation, and his vocation is feeble. Compared with The Last Hurrah, this novel is a kind of lost begorra...
...This "potbellied Irishman" of German ancestry thanks TIME for its excellent reportage of Synanon...
...citizens of Luangprabang, the most conspicuous face of the U.S. was that of a redheaded, freckled Irishman from Larkspur, Calif, named Francis P. Corrigan, 35. It was a face they liked. In four years as the U.S. Information Service's public affairs officer in Luangprabang, Corrigan acquired a working knowledge of the Lao language and a stomach that could take the glutinous rice and fiery red peppers he was served when traveling about the back country. He shot craps with the governor of the province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages...
...brutally frank personal exchanges", the addicts slowly reveal to themselves the anxieties that led them to the needle, and through daily contact with similarly beset persons are reinforced in their determination to quit narcotics permanently. Says the founder of Synanon House, 48-year-old Charles E. Dederich, a potbellied Irishman who was once an alcoholic but never a drug addict: "It is something that works...