Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show that they were as capable of meting out kangaroo justice as the "official" I.R.A., the "provisionals" last week dragged a 20-year-old man from a pub, allegedly for pushing drugs, then tarred and feathered him and chained him to a park fence. They also accused an English ex-soldier of "interfering with women" and tarred him outside Belfast...
...stage is set by a German freighter that dumps arms into the stormy ocean. Enter handsome Tim O'Leary, the Commandant, with nine fine young men in oilslieks. O'Leary goes straight to the pub of Mr. Ryan, a trusted revolutionary, to ask for a dozen men to help collect cast-up munitions from the beach at daybreak. Trouble is, Mr. Ryan is an informer on the payroll of the aristocratic British major who is fucking around with Ryan's daughter...
...restaurant. Bradley joined two former airline executives in 1969 to open Victoria Station, an antique-encrusted dining room put together from seven old railroad cars in downtown San Francisco. The partners have grossed more than $1,000,000, and have started a chain by opening an English pub across town and a Victoria Station in Atlanta. Bradley's company has understandably become a lodestone for out-of-work brokers from around San Francisco. One of them has become a waiter...
...fact, it is a 5-by-8-ft. table covered with carefully scaled fields and forests, and populated by immaculately realistic toy soldiers. The only thing actually flowing is ale. The men are gathered, as is their monthly custom, in a private room over the Ordnance Arms, a pub in London's Southwark. The Society of Ancients is staging the twelfth battle of its miniaturized Wars of the Roses. But did the Battle of Pleshey actually occur? Not bloody likely...
...London theater to make room for the premiere of Laurence Olivier's version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Sam had dropped Anne a line, asking her to see it with him. While waiting for her at the cinema, Sam fortified himself at the next-door pub with two pints of bitter and a rum-and-Coke. Wasn't he nervous? "She's like any other bird, really," he gulped. When Anne turned up, though, and proffered her hand, Sam kissed it -strictly not done with royalty, and certainly not the customary greeting for birds...