Word: northerners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SINCE THE ERUPTION OF SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN Northern Ireland 23 years ago, Christmas in Britain has frequently brought the distinctly unjoyous prospect of Irish Republican Army terrorism. 1992 is already part of that deadly tradition. At the height of Thursday's morning rush hour, two bombs exploded in central Manchester, injuring 64 people. Most of the victims were hit by flying glass in the second blast after they had sought refuge from the first near the city's Anglican cathedral. Police, citing phoned messages, blamed the I.R.A...
...Green Lights." It would seem that some in the room haven't been listening to Vice President-elect Al Gore '69 too closely. He said time and time again during the presidential campaign that helping the environment does not necessarily mean cutting jobs, as in the example of the Northern spotted...
...northern Iraq, about 180,000 have been killed by Saddam Hussein's regime...
...people like Kara Alexander. Her unemployed husband Edgar robbed a bank in October to get money for food. He will enter prison on January 4, and Kara will go on welfare. She is illiterate and doesn't know how to drive. She lived most of her life in the northern hill country, where poverty means, as she put it, "liv[ing] off the land...
Rodriguez offers himself as an example and proof of this. He is a Mexican American with an "Italian suit, an American voice and an Indian face," a Catholic homosexual who was taught by Irish nuns in a parochial school in Northern California, a scholar of English literature whose Spanish retains a gringo accent. He steadfastly refuses to give any of these identities primacy, to allow any one gloss on his thought...