Word: orangeman
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...Harvard men's lacrosse team is seeded eighth in the NCAA Division I tournament, and will play the ninth-seeded U.S. Naval. Academy Wednesday in the first round at Ohiri Field. The winner will play the top-ranked Syracuse Orangeman at the Carrier Dome...
King Juan Carlos of Spain, still steamed that the royal couple were departing on their honeymoon cruise from the contested Rock of Gibraltar, stayed away as announced, but send a gift. The Rev. Ian Paisley, an Orangeman of the deepest hue, was dismayed that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, had been asked to say a prayer during the ceremony, and made his displeasure known in a rhetorical thunderbolt: "May God bless the Prince and his bride-to-be, but may God deliver the House of Windsor from the conspiracy of Rome to subvert the Protestant monarchy...
Faulkner, who in pugnacious moments looks rather like a bull terrier, made an early reputation in Unionist politics as a right-winger, a staunch Orangeman and a fierce critic of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a strong and capable Home Affairs Minister, in charge of security, at the height of the I.R.A.'s 1956-62 border campaign against Northern Ireland. As Prime Minister, he offered Catholic M.P.s a larger share of parliamentary power, and named the first Catholic minister to a Unionist government in the province's history...
...toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the gun of Athlone and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket; and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick the arse of a Papist...
...audience to the Allied press, but what impressed Johnston were the shouts of the cameramen: "Hold it, Pope, we gotcha ..." A Scottish pipe band marched into St. Peter's Square, bent-in the words of the pipe major-on "gieing Popie a blaw." The Pope was delighted, says Orangeman Johnston, but "all the same, they might have picked on a more suitable tune than Lillibulero...