Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eloquent Litany. New members are not supposed to make serious speeches their first day in Parliament, but in an assembly captivated by her before she ever opened her mouth, no rules applied. Her small peat-bog Irish voice twanged through the great hall as she tartly announced: "There never was born an Englishman who understands the Irish people." She had come, she said, to speak for the poor people, Protestant as well as Catholic, all oppressed by "the society of landlords who, by ancient charter of Charles II, still hold the rights of the ordinary people of Northern Ireland over...
...words, Bernadette's had banged like Bogside paving stones. But the next night, in the privacy of her 22nd-birthday dinner, she was wistful about the loss of her days of innocence as a student protester in blue jeans and bulky sweater. "I believe standing for this Parliament destroyed something in myself. Then why did I do it? The people in Ireland needed a moral victory...
...Ulster, have long agitated for a one-man, one-vote ruling. Now, argued O'Neill, they must be granted it to avoid further bloodshed. By a narrow margin he won the point, but the motion must still go through the entire party mechanism and then Ulster's Parliament, and there is no guarantee that it will pass. If the measure does not, O'Neill says he will resign...
...increases in Britain are imposed with guillotine-like dispatch. Disclosing few, if any, details in advance, the government presents the bad news in its annual budget and gets quick approval from a compliant Parliament. In what has become a national guessing game, Britons start hedge-buying weeks beforehand on goods and services that they expect to be hit by new taxes. They are urged on by shop-window posters that read "Beat the Budget." Because of Britain's economic difficulties, the guessing in recent years has been over where-not whether-the tax ax would fall...
...yesterday, a Mr. Adolphus Edwards, a Jamaican immigrant, was pecked to death by a large Bronze Eagle in Upper Parliament St. A U.S. State Dept. spokesman said later, "We have no comment to make as of this time...