Word: mooney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giancana understood such methods; he had employed them himself in the days when, known to his friends as "Mooney" or "Momo," he ran the Chicago underworld. His rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones...
Halfway through the period, Wolf put Harvard back in the lead with a penalty kick over the head of goalie Jim Mooney...
Wills contended that the New York move hurt Woodstock academically. But Woodstock's president, Teilhardian Scholar Christopher F. Mooney, points out that the school was received enthusiastically in New York's academic community. It retained such luminaries as Theologians Avery Dulles (son of John Foster Dulles) and Walter J. Burghardt (one of the two U.S. members of the papal Theological Commission). This year 130 students from Union Theological registered for Woodstock courses, and the school was building close alliances with Columbia University's history and religion departments...
...first day of 1973, like many other Ulster workers for whom New Year's Day was not a holiday, Jack Mooney, 31, father of three, headed for the night shift at the Rolls-Royce plant on the outskirts of Belfast. As he and five fellow workers who were riding in a blue Volkswagen pulled into the employees' parking lot, ambushers opened fire. A hail of 20 bullets struck the crammed car. Mooney was killed and two of his colleagues were wounded...
...Protestants intent on murdering any available Catholic, and vice versa-and those motivated by revenge against suspected informers. In addition, say Belfast police, some victims have merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of last year's 121 victims, 81 were Catholics, as were Jack Mooney and the engaged couple of Donegal (the first such victims in the Republic of Ireland). But each side has been guilty of particularly gruesome murders, which have overtones of both wartime atrocities and gangland executions...