Word: lough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twas a saucy business surely, and one that, in an older time, might well have put County Donegal up in arms and stained the waters of Lough Swilly pink with men's blood. Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that married the king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire. "We want a navy snack," says they, marching into the Green Bay at Buncrana. "We want a typical navy snack, with plenty of steak and chips and don't say nothin' to anyone about...
...parching and a dryness of the entire population that, faith, by the time the young duke and his friends get back to their naval duty at Londonderry, you'd scarce find a sober breath in all Buncrana, and that's in County Donegal on the shores of Lough Swilly...
...Lough Conn, a 33-to-1 shot from Ireland, led most of the way, as he had last year until he fell at treacherous Becher's Brook. At the last few jumps, up moved Caughoo, 100-to-1 (202½-to-1 on the tote), an Irish eight-year-old with a jockey who had never ridden the Aintree course before. Caughoo (who cost Dublin Jeweler J. J. McDowell $200 as an unbroken juvenile) finished 20 lengths out front. The fog was so thick that most of the 300,000 in the crowd had to read about the race...
Through the swirling Northern Ireland mists, a ship stood into Lough Foyle last week. She carried several hundred Seabees for the U.S. Naval Operating Base in Londonderry. The Navy's new crew of construction and repair men were a few days late for a celebration: the base had just passed its first anniversary. But they were not too late to hear navymen sing the praises-embroidered with profane complaints-of Derry, one of the secrets of U.S. enterprise in World War II, just being made public...
...word that Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commander of Corregidor, is imprisoned on Formosa with twelve other U.S. generals: Major Generals Edward King Jr., George F. Moore, George M. Parker Jr., Brigadier Generals Lewis C. Beebe, Clifford Bluemel, William E. Brougher, Charles C. Drake, Arnold J. Funk, Maxon S. Lough, Allan C. McBride, Clinton A. Pierce, James R. N. Weaver...