Word: orangemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taunt may be fresh, but the sentiment is not. Having governed their country as a virtual Protestant theocracy since Ireland was partitioned in 1920, the Orangemen of the North pay scant heed to Catholic feelings or, often, to Catholic rights. The Unionist Party monopolized the central government at Storemont from the first, and it has kept power-including voting power-in the hands of the Protestant haves. Businessmen, for example, command up to six votes each in local elections. Nor do the burdens of a chronically weak economy fall equally: unemployment in some Catholic areas runs as high...
...violently. Among the first to express its ire was the oligarchic Orange Order, a powerful political-religious society whose members have included all Prime Ministers and virtually every Cabinet Minister in Northern Ireland's history. Like others, it has been particularly skillful in playing on the fears of Orangemen that all Catholics secretly want "to do away with the border" and rejoin Eire, despite a recent poll showing that 70% of Ulster's Catholics favor some form of continuing association with Britain...
Exhausted by the trip to the wilds of New Jersey, the Crimson's quarterback, budding young sports editor "Trickie Dickie" Paisner performed definitely below par, calling several bad plays, including a triple reverse which gave the Orangemen a safety in the second quarter...
Syracuse's Orangemen were in the race until the finish, but Harvard held on to win by eight feet. It was the closest race of the year...
...decision on the championship went down to the last game, with Eliot and Lowell in hot pursuit of the undefeated Orangemen. Quincy finished with a 6-0-2 record and 14 points. Eliot and Lowell tied for second with 12 points each. Eliot ended the season with a 6-2-0 record, while Lowell...