Word: liffey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DUBLIN'S Ron Delany flows faster than the River Liffey, but not any faster than his competitors make him. That is why the Villanova junior is not only the world's best miler, but also the most exasperating to track buffs, who sense that he can run even faster, and know that he has the stuff to rank among the alltime great runners. See SPORT, Loafing Champion...
...feel the thin snap of the finish tape; Delany beats them to it with deceptive ease. In the mile run at the Knights of Columbus games last week, the pale, frail-looking Irishman loafed through the first 8½ laps as if lazing along the banks of the Liffey back home. He stayed an easy third; suddenly, almost imperceptibly, he moved to second, then, with a lap and a half to go. he dug in. In that brief suggestion of his tremendous power, Delany passed Maryland's Burr Grim and won by 15 yds. His time: a creditable...
Napoleon & Me. The sixth river was the Liffey, in Dublin. There Johnston was married during a brief furlough. Soon he was back at the front, bridging the seventh river, the Rhine, and pushing on into Germany. With the hard-driving U.S. tankmen he felt at home. But he also felt sorry for the Germans, until one day when he came upon the Buchenwald death camp and choked as he recorded the story...
What would St. Finian have thought, he who is known as the "Teacher of the Irish Saints?" In the handsome Dublin church named for the great 6th century monk, a new pastor was preaching last week, and in his accents there was precious little of the Liffey. For a fact, the Rev. Hans Dietrich Mittorp was German, and a Lutheran at that-the first Lutheran pastor with a parish in Ireland for more than two centuries...
...almost two centuries Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Ltd. has stood on the banks of Dublin's River Liffey and brewed a dark and pungent beer. It is known the world over as Guinness, and it is Ireland's national drink in a country where the average beer consumption is 100 pints a year per person. Therefore, Guinness has been little advertised in Ireland. But last week Dubliners were surprised to see the famous slogan-"Guinness Is Good for You"*-plastered on Dublin's buses. The ads, said Guinness & Co., were not for Irish eyes...