Word: meath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite what to make of it as they trudged to the polls on election day. After casting their ballots, everyone sat back and waited while election officials struggled with the complex Irish proportional representation system. In two constituencies, recounts were called for by narrowly beaten candidates. In Longford, West Meath, the loser claimed that mental patients in Mullingar hospital, allowed to vote for the first time, had been subject to undue influence by their doctors. With three seats subject to recount, at week's end Lemass' Fianna Fail held 71 seats, a rise of one; Fine Gael...
...Spencer Tracy, 63, in his Los Angeles home, with a continuing respiratory ailment complicated by diabetes; Cincinnati Reds' Manager Fred Hutchinson, 44, in his physician brother's Seattle home, with a malignancy in an undisclosed area; Brendan Behan, 40, in Dublin's Meath Hospital, with pneumonia and head injuries after he was found lying in a pool of blood. He had been out celebrating his exit from the Royal City of Dublin Hospital...
...when the book was inscribed. The last few pages, which would normally tell the history of such a work, are missing. Some scholars date it from the 6th century, others from the 9th. In any case, in 1006 it was in the church at Kells in the county of Meath. In that year, according to one chronicler, the great manuscript, "the chief relic of the Western world," was stolen. When it was found a couple of months later half buried in the ground, its gold, gem-studded covers were gone...