Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government had no answer and few plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
Since January, blizzard after blizzard had struck Eire, until three-quarters of the land was covered with a two-foot layer of granite-hard ice. There is a tradition that on March 17 Saint Patrick turns "the stone warm side up" to make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst...
...Ides of March were uneasy. In a Britain plagued by blizzards, floods and landslides,* the Army asked the House of Commons for a sizable budget. Heavy snow in Eire curtailed the export of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. In Naples, striking bakers raided the University library and burned books. In Moscow, Atomic Scientist Peter Kapitza, variously reported purged or resting, emerged to publish a learned paper entitled: "Theoretical and Empirical Expressions for Heat Transfers in a Turbulent Stream...
...limit Presidential tenure have consumed a goodly amount of time without producing either bills or resolutions acceptable to both Houses. But a sizable proportion of Congressional proceedings and almost half the space in the Record have been allotted to material designed for constituent consumption--eulogies of Luther Burbank, St. Patrick, and William Sibert; condemnation of Reds, the New Deal, and executive extravagance; reading excerpts from local editorials, school girl essays, or telegrams from prominent citizens. These opi, printed in the Record (and no Congressman is ever refused permission to insert anything in the Record) will some day appear...
...Saint Patrick is being honored by the University in its own way today with the appointment of John Vincent Kelleher, Jr. as assistant professor of Modern Irish History and Literature...