Word: patricks
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...experts consulted, Catholic Neurosurgeon Robert J. White of Cleveland, finds the resulting document "ultraconservative." Patrick Steptoe, the British doctor who delivered Louise Brown, called the teaching "rather ridiculous," adding, "Our experiments may benefit a great deal of people in the future. I think it is perfectly moral to conduct them...
...Brown women, whose names have not been released, accused sophomore David W. Krumsiek and junior Patrick J. Flanagan, both members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, of first degree sexual abuse after a Valentine's Day semiformal...
Haggerty kids with him about St. Patrick's Day in an imitation brogue. Sophomore Joe Giani, also a weight thrower, laughed, "there are a lot of things I'd like to say about James, but I'd better not say them...
However, the eve of Saint Patrick's Day saw little good humor during an acrimonious four-hour hearing attended by 100 city cab drivers. Of the many proposals discussed, the councilors and members of the cab industry agreed on only one: a 25 percent increase in city cab fares. The increase would be the first in six years, a period which has seen a cumulative inflation of 37 percent...
...mark. Unlike their strident, better known and more ancient Scottish cousins, the Irish (or Uilleann) bagpipes are soft and melodic; their construction is different, and no one wears an ethnic costume for performances. Not that the Irish scorn the Highland pipes; they play them too, on occasions like St. Patrick's Day parades, but that is in part because the Irish pipes cannot be played standing up. Besides, they are not very loud. The Scottish variety is challenging enough, but Uilleann pipes are in a class by themselves. They are difficult to obtain, harder to maintain and nearly impossible...