Word: niagara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic Premier Sean Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley stormed, "as try to stop our Protestant cause." When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Belfast this month to dedicate a bridge, embittered Catholics promised retaliation; and sure enough, a twelve-pound chunk of concrete came crashing down on her car from a fourth-floor window...
...booby-trapped with nuance about the love-hate relationship between East and West. Though many of his lines are in Russian (hastily acquired for this role), his Red-roving English is a comic wonder, spoken with the don't-look-back resolve of a man headed over Niagara Falls in a barrel...
...1850s, his eloquent flair for embodying the nation's grand notion of "manifest destiny" made his paintings public events. On one day alone in 1857, Horace Greeley, George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense that policemen were required to keep pedestrian traffic moving. The price it commanded, $10,000, was the highest paid up to that date for a painting by a living American...
Soviet and East European Institute Niagara University Niagara University...
...ambitious self-study of the university. The report urged a sharp hike in salaries, more lay representation on the clergy-dominated board, creation of an advisory faculty council. To carry out the reforms, the board last July brought in Father Cahill, who had been president of the Vincentians' Niagara University...