Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diners lit hundreds of matches to show how Flood had "restored light" to Wilkes-Barre in 1972 by securing more than $1 billion in federal aid to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Agnes. Said Flood, who sported a green carnation in his buttonhole in honor of St. Patrick's Day: "I have done my best, in the best way I know how, to provide whatever service I can to the people I represent." No one in the audience had any doubts that in November Flood would easily win re-election to his 16th term in the House...
...agree to new low fares by March 17. Nothing was ever said publicly about possible U.S. restrictions on flights by the state-owned British Airways, a far more important carrier than Caledonian, but the threat was certainly there. As one British embassy spokesman put it: "Carter hung a St. Patrick's Day sword of Damocles over our heads...
...Saint Patrick, the man behind today's holiday, was a "dubious character," Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of English, said yesterday...
...Saint Patrick was a mysterious figure of the early or late fifth century, Bloomfield said. "We don't know much about him except that he existed and was responsible for the spread of Christianity when the Celts were being pushed westward by the Romans," he said, adding. "The English couldn't take St. Patrick away...
Failure to show up in an Irish bar on St. Patrick's Day is about as close to a treasonable offense as you'll find in any Irish neighborhood. There is a certain air to the Irish pub that sets it apart: the creaminess of the stout, the smokiness of the wooden bar, the perfectly spherical physique of the bartenders. But most of all there is the conversation, which ranges from Joyce to the IRA, to the sermon that new priest had the nerve to preach last Sunday, but, by the fourth beer, always settles down to Sports...