Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Irish Brooklyn of the '20s and '30s, the play traces the early life of a working-class girl, played by Faye Dunaway. The production met mixed but generally negative reviews from the dailies yesterday...
...equate Walesa's contribution to his country with Bobby Sands' death for the cause of a united Irish republic. Sands would have been my choice...
...universe? The question has perplexed scientists, to say nothing of theologians, at least since the 17th century, when an Irish divine, James Ussher, used the Bible to calculate the world's birth date as 4004 B.C. Since then, astronomers contemplating far-off stars and galaxies through powerful telescopes have steadily increased Ussher's figure. Today many scientists agree the universe goes back as far as 20 billion years, when it was created by an explosion irreverently referred to as the Big Bang...
...start of the Irish legend, Cool Joe the Comeback Kid, is also the start of the misunderstanding. He has been taken to be cold, indifferent, standoffish. "I am affected by things, but I don't show it." He is unflappable. I'm emotional, but nobody knows it." Off the field, he is undemonstrative. "At Notre Dame I was awed by the place in general and lonely at being away from home for the first time. Plus, all of a sudden, there were eleven other quarterbacks. I was feeling all the things people say I don't feel...
There were six registered miracles in Montana's time at Notre Dame, more than enough to elevate anyone to the rank of blessed. In his final college game, in arctic conditions at the Cotton Bowl, the Irish lagged behind Houston 34-12, almost as if to test the limit of his magic. Montana got to work, and with four seconds left, a pass play to Kris Haines would have scored the winning touchdown, except Haines slipped. Kris remembers: "We went back into the huddle with two seconds to go, and Joe said, 'Don't worry...