Word: phair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a few weeks a fine Irish uproar was under way. Church of Ireland Bishop John Percy Phair journeyed from Kilkenny to Fethard to comfort the Protestant flock of 25 and advised them to meet their Catholic boycotters with "smiling faces" ("Fethard unphair to Protestants" punned the press). Letters flooded the newspapers with suggestions, e.g., all Ireland's Protestants should buy from Leslie Gardner's hardware shop and Betty Cooper's news agency-grocery in Fethard. Northern Ireland Unionists urged the government to start a fund for the boycotted Protestants, and a group of Belfast aircraft workers...
Macky swam the 220 for the first time in his life in a meet, forced Yale's Captain John Phair and Ray Ellison to come from behind to place second and third--the latter caught up only on the last turn, and recorded the excellent time of 2:13.5. That clocking ranks with the top six in the East, but with it, though he forced the Yale entries to swim faster than they ever had before and nearly pulled off a surprise third that no one expected, Macky was panned by Danzig...
Then she read from some books. She read directions one how to swim, like "Don't inhale under water," quoted from the Bible, and read from "Horatio at the Bridge," explaining how Horatio swam the Tiber clothed all in armor. Meanwhile, Captain John Phair of the Yale swimming team swam the entire length of the 25-yard pool clothed all in armor--on loan, I guess, from some museum. He wore K-rations strapped around him to make up, they said, for the lack of Tiber current in the Payne Whitney pool...
...Burnett, John Schafer, and Ken Abbey are only split seconds behind Donovan. They will give the Elis both top places in the 50 and possibly the 100, as well as practically a sure victory in the final relay. The Blue also figures to sweep the 440, with John Phair and Bob Fleming backing up Smith...
...freshman meet might be close, and could conceivably produce an upset. The Bulldog freshman aces are sprinter Hendrik Gideonse and John Phair, a good middle-distance swimmer