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Macken has told 21 stories, mostly in a brogue as thick as barley soup. A typical one is "The Currach Race"-a currach being the paper-thin, skin and withy rowboat in which Galway fishermen put out into the Atlantic. Colm wants to marry Sorcha, a fisherman's daughter. But the fishermen despise Colm because he is a farmer. Their taunts goad him into taking an oar in a currach race on St. Patrick's Day. He nearly kills himself, but in the end, bless him, they agree he's a great man, and there...
...when compared to the multitude of little ways in which the School is working every day to make sure that Oklahoma A. & M. girl meets Harvard boy, that International Seminar participant from Korea gets to see Boston, and that romantically inclined couple find out where they can rent a rowboat...
Navy Secretary Francis ("Rowboat") Matthews was furious when he learned about Burke's Op-23. He ordered Navy inspectors to raid Burke's offices. They descended late one afternoon and held Burke and his staff incommunicado all night while they searched through the files for secret papers (they found none). A few weeks later, Matthews drew a red line through Burke's name on a list of promotions to rear admiral; it was back on the next list after a press outcry and the personal intervention of Admiral Forrest Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, with...
...yourself to a MOLESWORTH DAYDREAM. Simple, easy to operate. No gadgets . . ."). Best among the catalogue of daydreams offered is the one in which the whole school is swept away by the grate st custard's flood, but molesworth and prudence entwhistle, the beautiful under-matron, survive in a rowboat ("how peaceful it is upon the waters nigel...
...Archbishops of Canterbury had traditionally been protectors of the poor and oppressed, that St. Augustine had been the first to occupy the ancient see. Step by step, Becket fought the King's encroachments on church power; finally, in danger of his life, he fled to France in a rowboat. After six years he returned to Canterbury, still defiant. The King was heard to scream: "What sluggards, what cowards have I reared in my courts? Not one will deliver me from this turbulent priest...