Word: shamrocked
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With a green Viking hat on his head, a shamrock on his cheek, and a banner in his hand. Dave Borgman, a hefty man in his mid-30s, was the consummate MSU fan. The Harvard hat impaled on the horn of his headpiece was the finishing touch...
...challenger arrived in the ring first, hooded in a green silk robe decorated with his customary Irish shamrock proclaiming GERRY, DAD AND MOM. Rappaport wiggled beside him, waving an oversize replica of Holmes' championship belt, except with a clockface drawn over the insignia and the words TICK, TICK written across it. Holmes happens to be 32, Cooney 25. As he had planned for weeks, Cooney bided the time during the referee's instructions by staring at the champion's belly, trying to chill him with the thought of body punches. And Holmes did show considerable respect throughout...
...into a singles bar frequented by professional hockey players. Tended by a genial Irish giant named Ned, the bar had fallen on difficult times and was forced to accept the whiskey-sour-or-rum-and-coke indignities of my friends and me. And like all good neighborhood bars, the Shamrock had its share of local bums who always depended on Ned and his colleagues for a nightly snort...
...most pitiful--and insistent--of these bedraggled boozehounds was a diminutive and (we thought) mute gentleman who was called "Bosco" by the regulars. Whenever we went to the Shamrock, Bosco would turn up at least once an evening--stopped, filthy and silent. One day, however, he walked in, turned to the senior member of our group and spoke. "Hey you," he said. "Do me a favor: Kill the Mayor...
...fend off any further takeover efforts, Conoco searched frantically for a merger partner. On rumor alone, the stock prices of Diamond Shamrock, Newmont Mining and Cities Service all leaped as investors speculated that Conoco was preparing to institute merger proceedings with them...