Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interfaith service in a nearby Protestant church to reaffirm their support of women's right to end unwanted pregnancies. In downtown Houston, some 250 people, many of them wearing black armbands in memory of the aborted unborn, gathered to protest the legality of such operations. Outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, a crowd demonstrated against the Roman Catholic Church's position, which holds that abortion is a sin. In a display of bad taste that could only weaken their case, the demonstrators crowned a woman "Pope," who issued a mocking benediction to the crowd that...
...Patrick Creevy, a teaching fellow in English 166, said yesterday, "I don't remember anybody saying anything about telling the kids about the format...
...government's cause was not helped by Patrick Jenkins, an energy minister, who declared that Britons should not turn on the lights when brushing their teeth since this function could easily be performed in the dark. In an inept demonstration of his point, Jenkins posed for the Daily Telegraph shaving by candlelight - using an electric razor...
...stylistically it is self-indulgent. For example, White is very good at describing people performing homely tasks alone, but he does it so of ten that such sequences seem like extracts from a copy book. There is meticulous attention to scene setting, but action almost always happens offstage. Patrick White is king of his created world, but at the price of keeping it without spontaneity...
...Patrick's Day Riot in 1972 first put Walpole in the news and established Boone's opposition. In an attempt to embarrass Boone's administration, the guards left the prison and then claimed that there was a race riot inside. Boone told newsmen that Walpole did not have a race riot but a guard-instigated riot. He proved this by showing that although the prisoners had done $1 million of material damage, not one prisoner was hurt...