Word: lanning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops were called in to help police break up a march of about 250 Protestants to the new Martyrs Memorial Church of the Rev. lan Paisley. The troops fired tear gas when the demonstrators tried to push through a cordon blocking their procession...
...coffee that tasted like tea and the nurses standing sternly with crossed arms under the pillars and my fellow patients dressed in cheap cotton with a half a set of teeth each. And back in O-2 I began expectantly thinking about what it would be like to have lan walk onto the ward and say let's go and as easy as that leave this enormous machine that endlessly cranks out thick swatches of time like huge strings of taffy. It was absurd to be able to simply walk out. Some elaborate rite of passage seemed called...
...Finally lan came with a big smile and we went into Mrs. Snowden's office to say goodby. I talked to her for the first time since I met her, three days ago. I think that all I said was wow. She laughed and said she thought I was a monk because all I did was sit curled up in a chair and never spoke to anyone. Then lan and I walked down the caged-in stairwell and I looked down and said goodby to the civil defense water and then we walked through the O-Building canteen and said...
...Newspaper reporters monitoring the police radio on the Derry Battle Day say that the police charged the Bogside in direct defiance of an order not to do so made by the police superintendent.) Yet the intervention of the London government may just activate the Ulster Unionist extremists. (The Rev. lan Paisley has recently brought back and dedicated to Ulster a ship used in the teens to run guns to the old Ulster Unionist army...
...Westrum, guided the Mets past the Cubs to their first ninth-place finish. They recorded another first in 1966: they lost fewer than 100 games. Despite the change, attendance rose, and the steadfast fans still brandished their banners and sang their chants. But some of the old élan was gone. The Mets had become just another bad ball club...