Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think--that required the light to be sufficient to read a newspaper by, soever though it was dark when I entered after a few minutes I could see the people around me. They'd come in the early afternoon for a good snooze after a meal in the pub around the corner, or sometimes for a bad dream. One day an old man started morning in his sleep, and a woman next to him shoved him to wake him up. Soon they were hard at it, first whispering then shouting, until a man from about ten rows back called...
...capture that quality, Clarke conscientiously lunched with Minnelli in New York, spent hours interviewing her at her hotel suite, and traveled to San Juan to catch her nightclub act and do a bit of pub-crawling with her and her friends. Minnelli is always a fast-stepper, and one Sunday night after a particularly exhausting performance, she changed clothes, gathered her friends and set out to sample San Juan night life...
...caused. Because Griffiths, at his best, reinforces the sound historic conviction that this particular war could never have been won on terms useful to anyone, these sections have doubly tragic effect. They make the book one of the hardest-edged and most perceptive polemics against the war yet pub lished - and the war still seems far from fading away...
...split Unionist ranks now have closed behind Faulkner and his no-nonsense rejection of any form of Irish unification. From Stormont came cold statements blaming the marchers for "a meaningless and futile terrorist exercise." The typical Protestant worker's reaction was expressed by one laborer in a Belfast pub last week when he said, "I wish it had been 1,300 of the bastards...
...town, all shops were closed, and from almost every window in the Bogside and Creggan ghettos black flags were displayed. In Stewartstown, some 50 miles away, a Catholic pub that stayed open was bombed and one man was killed - thereby raising to 234 the number of dead in Ulster since the summer of 1969. Mourners also marked the spots where the victims had fallen and died with flags, crude crosses and rosaries...