Word: paisleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Towards lunch a few girls who clearly had a sense of the event as an event rather than as an irritation wandered around looking for conversation. Two of them wore clothes of fine paisley and looked like gay moths fluttering from one sweet basil to another. They thought to make themselves appear innocent, but true innocence like true madness never perceives itself, and they achieved the super come-on. At last report they were being escorted out of Mem Hall through the said confetti of fallen circulars...
...Roman Catholics, who want closer ties with the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland. Last week Prime Minister Terence O'Neill's government took its first legal action against the man who has stirred up much of the recent trouble. He is big, garrulous Rev. Ian Paisley, 40, leader of Northern Ireland's Free Presbyterian Church...
...Ireland, especially since 1690, when Britain's "Glorious Revolution" secured Protestant ascendancy to Ulster. To try to ease the old hatreds, Protestant O'Neill broke all precedent last year by inviting the Republic of Ireland's 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...
Blaming his fellow Protestants for most of the violence, O'Neill outlawed an anti-Catholic band of hotheads called the Ulster Volunteer Force. Then the government ordered Paisley and six of his cohorts to stand trial on charges of unlawful assembly and inciting a riot last month in Belfast. Last week Paisley and five of his six companions were found guilty, ordered to pay a ?30 ($84) fine and to promise to keep the peace for two years. When Paisley refused, he was ordered imprisoned for three months...
...latter-day Rome," Paisley sneered to his followers before marching off to the jail, "once again dips her hands in the blood of saints, and is drunk with the blood of saints." The saint would return, Paisley promised, and even run for Parliament. Within hours, fresh signs blossomed on buildings and sidewalks: "Paisley for Prime Minister." And by week's end, angry mobs of Protestants had taken to the streets, smashing windows, overturning cars, and battling police...