Word: limerick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once Church gets going on a topic, a mere cover story cannot always contain his talent and energy, so he indulges a longtime passion for satire and verse. His Man of the Year story in January produced an Ayatullah Khomeini limerick ("too indecorous to quote," he says), and this month's Reagan cover story yielded a parody of an all-purpose campaign-trail press conference: "Q. Senator, what do you think of the new poll that shows you an overwhelming victor in North Dakota? A. I wish I could believe it, but it's wrong...
...University of London: "Nothing of this quality and importance has been found in Ireland in this century." Although it will take a year to restore the chalice, which was caked with a greenish mold, experts are already comparing it to the famed Ardagh chalice, discovered in 1868 in County Limerick and often described as the most beautiful in the world...