Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care ward at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last week, she still did not know that the three children-Joanne, 8, John, 3, and Andrew, 6 weeks -were dead. Nor did she know that their deaths had provoked Betty Williams into organizing the most impressive peace demonstrations that Northern Ireland has seen in seven years of fighting...
Corrigan and Williams, who plan to take their campaign throughout Northern Ireland, have also received death threats and obscene letters branding them "touts" (informers). "We will not be deterred by the hysterics of the peace-at-any-price brigade," huffed one IRA officer. The Protestant Telegraph, the Rev. Ian Paisley's fanatically Loyalist newspaper, also denounced the women's peace movement as "spurious" and "priest-inspired." After a gang of youngsters tried to set fire to her house, Williams sent her two children into hiding with friends...
...quickly declined his offer to withdraw. "I'm not going to leave this convention with my tail between my legs," he told the Pennsylvanian, "and neither are you." But the disillusionment with Reagan that exploded when he chose Schweiker was there to the end. The previous afternoon a Northern Governor pleaded with Reagan to drop Schweiker from the ticket-with the Pennsylvania Senator sitting right beside them in the limousine. "I couldn't live with myself," Reagan answered him. Either way, it was clear the move had badly backfired: Reagan was unable to hold his support...
...that budget?" A reference to Ford's widespread popularity around the world brought another Reagan gibe. As the large states of New Jersey and Ohio sang out their tallies, Reagan indulged in some arguable hindsight: if only he had gone into a few of the larger Northern states, he said, he could have won them. When New York's Dick Rosenbaum, his bald, sunburned head rising above the crowd, bellowed out with obvious pleasure a huge majority for the President, Reagan tried to perk up the mood: "That guy is going to turn me against Kojak...
...summer as an amateur gold miner in the High Sierras of Northern California produced more muscles, more sober thoughts and a net profit of 80?. The next stop on his pilgrimage, college, was less of an ordeal. Still, despite his being a leading campus socialist at the University of Minnesota-a protester against the ROTC, a spark of the Jacobin Club and a charter member of the "first American student movement"-Sevareid could write a dozen years later: "I remember only struggle . . . emotional exhaustion...