Word: irishmen
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...doublecrossed by a reporter. Said the candidate: "I was stiffed." But he assured the audience that he does not like telling ethnic jokes. He added: "From now on, I'm going to look over both shoulders, and then I'm only going to tell stories about Irishmen, because I'm Irish...
...Pope in Boston: it confirms the dreams of generations of faithful Catholics, Irishmen, Italians and others, and confirms the fears of their Protestant antagonists of generations past. Besides the deafening roar of Boston's brassiest Catholic Youth Organization bands and the huzzahs of the crowds in the packed streets, the papal entourage will be greeted by yet another sound--the rumbling bones of the Mathers, Cottons and Sewalls as they turn over in their graves. It will not be an act of inhospitality, mind you (even in death they are too well-bred for that), simply one of incredulity that...
...McMullen angrily told the supplier to bring the guns next time to his apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. But he nonetheless bought the guns - with $2,500 that he said was supplied by the Irish Northern Aid Committee, an organization that raises funds ostensibly to support the families of Irishmen held by the British...
...entered a crescendo of barbarity. The indiscriminate killings brought bitter condemnation from the Catholic Church and political leaders. But in Ulster's impoverished Catholic enclaves the sight of a British soldier at the end of the street remained a sufficient spur to militance in a conflict that Irishmen track back for centuries. Soon the Protestant backlash added to, and in many cases surpassed, the Provos' terror...
...published his first book, a landmark study of birds; at 22, he climbed the Matterhorn and shocked society by joining a New York City political club dominated by working-class Irishmen. The ward heelers did not know what to make of this nattily dressed dude with a high-pitched twang and, as a reporter noted, a "wealth of mouth." For Teddy, it was just another challenge: he wanted to find out "whether I really was too weak to hold my own in the rough and tumble." Elected to the state assembly, he joined the good-government movement and started assailing...