Word: irishman
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...security guard driving to work comes upon the scene and opens fire on the shooter as Atkinson's car rolls ahead aimlessly and plows into a utility pole. The guard, a red-haired, 300-lb. Irishman named Rory Vertigan, wings the shooter, who drops the Lincoln into reverse, slams into Vertigan's car and comes out flashing metal. Vertigan, his gun empty, rushes the driver, rips his gun away, throws him to the pavement and hands the weapon to another civilian just on the scene, ordering him to stand watch while Vertigan rushes to Atkinson and sees he has been...
...positions, Harvard took a little more time but ended up on top. Playing at No. 3, Green jumped out to an early lead but dropped the second set in 12 games. With the score leveled at a set apiece, Green had had enough. The Irishman stormed past his opponent in the third...
...Sinatra's cornball racial jesting at its worst. But for Sinatra, the sumptuous early '60s were a Golden Age, when gambling was still glamorous, smoking had charm and "dapper" was something you might actually want to be called. Naturally he was infatuated with J.F.K., just 18 months younger, an Irishman born to the Ivy League credentials and Establishment credibility that Sinatra never had. In return, Kennedy was fascinated by Sinatra's bachelor-in-paradise ways, cultural power and abundant women...
Throughout the Reagan years, O'Neill kept a close liberal eye on the conservative reforms backed by his fellow Irishman...
...Under the Pitons, for example, an Irishman named Blessington embarks on a Caribbean drug run that proves more terrifying than he could have imagined. His French partner seems headed toward paranoid violence. Worse still is Blessington's memory of the men who sold them the dope. They had asked for "Frenchy," and Blessington, trying to appear in control, said they would have to wait until his partner arrived. "They drew themselves up around their hidden weaponry behind a silent, drug-glazed wall of suspicion that looked impermeable to reason. They were zombies, without mercy, and he, Blessington, was wasting their...